Lectures On The Essence Of Religion

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532646232

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Lectures on the Essence of Religion by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

This book, translated for the first time into English, presents the major statement of the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach. Here, in his most systematic work, Feuerbach’s thought on religion and on the philosophy of nature achieves its full maturity. Central to the thought of Feuerbach is the concept that man not God is the creator, that divinities are representations of man’s innermost feelings and ideas. Philosophy should turn from theology and speculative rationalism to sound factual anthropology. “My aim in these Lectures,” writes Feuerbach, “is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, worshippers into workers, candidates for the other world into students of this world, Christians, who on their own confession are half-animal and half-angel, into men––whole men.”

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783989887091

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The Essence of Religion by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

A New 2023 translation into English from the original manuscript, with an introduction, glossary of Feuerbachian terminology and a timeline of his life and works. "The Essence of Religion" is a philosophical work published in 1841 that critiques the nature and origins of religious belief, arguing for a Darwinian-historical origin for religion, and a materialistic worldview. In this work, Feuerbach argues that religion is a product of human imagination and projection, and that its true essence can only be understood by examining the human mind and its relationship to the natural world. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche both take their satirical criticism about religion from Feuerbach, and every aspect of Marxism can be found here in Marx's favorite Philosopher. Feuerbach is a critical figure in the development of not merely Marxism, but Materialistic Humanism in general. Feuerbach is critical to understanding Marx. This is Volume VI in the 2023 The Complete Works of Ludwig Feuerbach by Newcomb Livraria Press

Author : F. Kristensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401765800

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The Meaning of Religion by F. Kristensen Pdf

Author : Carl Sagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101201831

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan Pdf

“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Great Books in Philosophy
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000095159954

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The Essence of Religion by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

"Originally published in 1845, this digest of thirty lectures by one of Germany's most influential humanist philosophers extends the critique expounded in The Essence of Christianity (1841) to religion as a whole." The main thrust of Feuerbach's analysis of religion is aptly summed up in the original subtitle to this work: "God the Image of Man. Man's Dependence upon Nature the Last and Only Source of Religion." Feuerbach reviews key aspects of religious belief and in each case explains them as imaginative elaborations of the primal awe and sense of dependence that humans experience in the face of nature's power and mystery. Rather than man being created in the image of God, the situation is quite the reverse: "All theology is anthropology," he says, and "the being whom man sets over against himself as a separate supernatural existence is his own being."

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486119229

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The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Did God create man? Or did man create God? Famed German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach explores the answer in this, his most influential work, published in German in 1841 and translated by celebrated English novelist George Eliot. Using Biblical references, dialectics, and ideas from some of the world's greatest thinkers, he confronts believers with his cogent explanation. Approaching religion from a humanistic perspective, Feuerbach explores the idea that divinity is an outward projection of our idealistic human nature. Asserting that nothing is higher than the perfection found in mankind, he proposes that a Supreme Being was created by man seeking comfort and relief from a hostile world, challenging tenets of Christianity from creation and the resurrection to faith and miracles. Feuerbach's critique of Hegelian idealism excited immediate international attention — influencing Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Engels in particular. Thought-provoking and utterly compelling, this historically significant polemic is must reading for lifelong students of religion and philosophy.

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520906471

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Thoughts on Death and Immortality by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872). The scandal created by portrayal of Christianity as an egoistic and inhumane religion cost the young Hegelian his job and, to some extent, his career. Joining philosophical argument to epigram, lyric, and satire, the work has three central arguments: first, a straightforward denial of the Christian belief in personal immortality; second, a plea for recognition of the inexhaustible quality of the only life we have; and third, a derisive assault on the posturings and hypocrisies of the professional theologians of nineteenth-century Germany.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300155501

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Reason, Faith, and Revolution by Terry Eagleton Pdf

On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in particular -- nor for many conventional believers. --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : God
ISBN : UOM:39015028552381

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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520326606

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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Author : Friedrich Schleiermacher
Publisher : CCEL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610251976

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On Religion by Friedrich Schleiermacher Pdf

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781877527463

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Pdf

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Author : Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Religion
ISBN : NYPL:33433068181266

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Elements of the Science of Religion: Ontological, being the Gifford lectures delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1898 by Cornelis Petrus Tiele Pdf

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781680339

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The Fiery Brook by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Feuerbach’s departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of Marx’s early writings. Indeed, a great amount of the young Marx must remain unintelligible without reference to certain basic Feuerbachian texts. These selections, most of them previously untranslated, establish the thought of Feuerbach in an independent role. They explain his fundamental criticisms of the ‘old philosophy’ of Hegel, and advance his own humanistic thought, which finds its bases in life and sensuality. Feuerbach’s contemporaneity as an existentialist, humanist, and atheist is clearly presented, and the reader can readily grasp the liberating influence of this too-long neglected philosopher. Professor Zawar Hanfi has written an excellent introduction establishing Feuerbach’s environment, importance, and relevance and his translations surpass most previous Feuerbach translators.