Open AccessTHE MOTIVES OF MAN-GOD IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF L. FEUERBACH
Author(s) -
JULIET B. BYAZROVA
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.78-83
Subject(s) - idealism , alienation , philosophy , epistemology , object (grammar) , natural (archaeology) , christianity , state (computer science) , humanity , moral philosophy , philosophical anthropology , sociology , religious studies , theology , law , history , mathematics , linguistics , archaeology , algorithm , political science
For the modern historical and philosophical period, to which L. Feuerbach belonged, the problem of man and society was one of the main ones. A correct understanding of human nature was of fundamental importance for him. It also guaranteed correct relations in society at the horizontal level (the relationship of a person to another person) and vertical (the relationship of a person to the state and the state to a person). The existing widespread views on this problem did not satisfy L. Feuerbach. They were, in his opinion, not only erroneous, but harmful. He criticized Christianity and objective idealism for the alienation of the essence of man and its hypostatization. All the predicates, he insistently repeats, with which man gives God, are of human origin. Religion as well as objective idealism do not have their own object of reflection. They have appropriated what does not belong to them. L. Feuerbach demands that theology should turn into anthropology, and philosophy should be guided by the sciences about man as a natural, natural being, without rejection of moral, moral and spiritual attributes...