Original scientific paper
Ludwig A. Feuerbach's critique of Religion - a clarity which overlooks the mystery of being
Nikola Stanković
; Filozofski fakultet Družbe Isusove, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The purposes of this article is to delve into Feuerbach's understanding of religion and his critique of religion by looking into the texts which played a large part in shaping his attitudes and which brought him most of his success as a writer. We will be looking at excerpts from the book «The Essence of Christianity» (Das Wesen des Christenthums), dealing with three concepts: man, religion and God. Man's relationship to God is as diverse as is human kind. Man's relationship to a personal and transcendent God is real and personal: not to an abstract product of the mind or to the mind as its own object. Although he recognizes that knowledge and reason are unknowable in themselves, Feuerbach deals with them as though they were knowable.
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Publication date:
3.12.2004.
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