Ep. 356: Feuerbach Against Theology (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We dig in and start our detailed treatment of Ludwig Feuerbach's essay "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843).
Feuerbach claims that people don't realize that the entity they worship is really just whatever it is about humanity and the world that we value, wrongly posited as an independent entity. So God is a mirror for any given society.
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| 0:30.2 | This is a partially examined life, episode 356. |
| 0:35.2 | Part two, we've been talking about Ludwig Feuerbach's principles of the philosophy of the future are from 1843. |
| 0:37.0 | I think that's probably all we're |
| 0:38.9 | going to focus on. We technically had read the introduction of the essence of Christianity from |
| 0:43.6 | 1841 as well, but we probably said most of what we're going to say about that. But this essay, |
| 0:49.3 | Philosophy of the Future, wow, there's a lot to it. It goes through 65 sort of point. So it sort of seemed like, oh, are these |
| 0:56.3 | going to be aphorisms? But some of them go on for several pages. It's not quite so aphoristic. |
| 1:03.1 | But, you know, it has something in common. It's sort of like you're reading Nietzsche a little bit. |
| 1:08.5 | Well, I think there's an overall structure and I'm, why don't I just give that very |
| 1:13.1 | quickly? |
| 1:13.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | Sorry. |
| 1:14.3 | It's not, it's not like Nietzsche algorithms in terms of here's a bunch of shit. |
| 1:18.1 | It's more like, you know, the Zarathustra atherisms where he's telling a story. |
| 1:22.5 | And anyway, but yeah, please go ahead. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah. but yeah please go ahead yeah so sections one through 13 he's going to start off by giving some |
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