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May 10, 2021 · This video looks at Ludwig Feuerbach's theory of religion in which he argues that God is an abstraction of ideal human traits. Religion, he believes, is the ...
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Sep 16, 2020 · Feuerbach posited that religion is a “projection” of ideal human values into the cosmos “out there”. In other words, religion is nothing more than a human projection or abstraction into the cosmos of ideas that have purely human origins.
Is there a God or has man just invented him?The critic of religion Ludwig Feuerbach posed this question in 1841 in his work "The Essence of Christianity".In ...
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Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man's inward nature. This projection is dubbed as a chimera by Feuerbach, that God and the idea of a higher being is dependent upon the aspect of benevolence.
For Feuerbach, God is nothing more than the outward projection of the human being’s own infinite nature. Thus man creates God, not the other way around.
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Feuerbach’s basic conclusion, that God is a psychological projection, is more or less easy to understand: the Christian God is an objectification of the basic human attributes of reason, will, and feeling.
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Dec 9, 2013 · Whereas the God of Christianity had previously been identified by Feuerbach as an alienated projection of the human species-essence, here God is defined instead as the realized drive-to-happiness of the Christian believer.
