Ep. 357: Feuerbach on the Evolution of Philosophy (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We finally discuss Feuerbach's proposed post-Hegelian, materialist approach to philosophy in his "Principles of the Philosophy of the Future" (1843). How can a materialist framework support phenomena central to F's account like our immediate, indubitable recognition of our selves, each other, and love itself?

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Partially Examined Life is sponsored by Givewell.
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0:11.6	You're listening to the Partial Examined Life, episode 357, part two.
0:21.3	We are still talking about Ludwig Feuerbach's principles of the philosophy of the future.
0:28.4	And we are jumping forward to his positive account.
0:33.3	As you said, that was section 31 to the end.
0:36.4	Skipping over for the moment, his detailed criticism of, why didn't Hegel get it right?
0:41.9	Why do we need materialism?
0:43.7	If it's not thought thinking itself, what is philosophy going to be like?
0:47.7	So in 31, he starts out by calling the new, so he's going to be calling this the new philosophy.
0:54.5	And he calls it the truth of the Hegelian philosophy,
0:59.3	which is a very Hegelian sounding thing to say, right?
1:02.0	The truth of something is just the next stage, right?
1:06.5	It's the teleological progression or something that completes the previous thing
1:10.7	because it resolves
1:12.0	a contradiction in it. That's the truth. And it's another way of saying he thinks this is going to
1:17.2	flow right out of the speculative philosophy out of Hegel. And why does it do that? Well, it
1:22.5	overcomes the problem of positing another that is posited from within and not being concrete enough.
1:28.9	So he'll say it thinks the concrete concretely rather than abstractly.
1:33.1	It acknowledges the real in its reality.
1:36.8	That's the new philosophy.
1:38.7	Woo-hoo.
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