Ep. 357: Feuerbach on the Evolution of Philosophy (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Mark, Wes, and Dylan continue to look at Ludwig Feuerbach's "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843), recounting his story about how increasingly mature notions of God should lead philosophy eventually to a materialism where the sensual is the real.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is sponsored by Givewell, which helps donors to charitable organizations find the highest impact opportunities. |
| 0:07.1 | Looking for that special Christmas gift, consider the partially examined life book. |
| 0:11.8 | A great way to lure your loved ones into a love of philosophy. |
| 0:14.8 | Get more information at partially examinedlife.com slash book. |
| 0:27.8 | You're listening to the partially examined life, |
| 0:29.8 | a podcast by some guys who at one point said on doing philosophy for a living |
| 0:31.4 | but then thought better of it. |
| 0:33.1 | Our question for episode 357 is maybe something like, |
| 0:37.0 | how should one actually do philosophy? |
| 0:39.3 | And we're continuing from our last episode on Ludwig Fiorbach's principles of the philosophy of the future from 1843. |
| 0:47.1 | For more information about the text and the podcast, please see PartiallyExaminedLife.com. |
| 0:51.3 | This is Mark Linsonmeyer, also philosophizing for the future in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:56.7 | This is Wes Alwyn, not just an ego, but a whole man in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:02.7 | And this is Dylan Casey here in Madison, Wisconsin with my here being. |
| 1:07.6 | All right, all right. So we had gotten through most of the God stuff out of the way. |
| 1:13.7 | I don't know that we'll talk about Ethnes of Christianity anymore, |
| 1:16.1 | but we had lots more as we were going through in some detail. |
| 1:19.8 | I think we had gotten up to around section 14. |
| 1:23.4 | Get us going, Wes. |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah, so these sections from 14 to 22 are like his little Higalian history of philosophy |
| 1:32.4 | where he shows how one thing breaks down one, you know, you could call it a form of consciousness |
| 1:38.5 | or theory if you wanted, but how one version of theology or philosophy leads to another. So it starts with traditional |
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