Thursday 26 September 2013

Feuerbach on inverted philosophy




The Hegelian philosophy is inverted, that is, theological, idealism, just as the Spinozist philosophy is theological materialism. It posited the essence of the ego outside the ego, that is, in separation from it, and it objectified the ego as substance, as God. But in so doing, it expressed – indirectly and in a reverse order – the divinity of the ego, thus making it, as Spinoza makes matter, into an attribute or form of the divine substance, meaning that man's consciousness of God is God's own self-consciousness. That means that the being belongs to God and knowing to man. But the being of God, according to Hegel, is actually nothing other than the being of thought, or thought abstracted from the ego, that is, the thinker. The Hegelian philosophy has turned thought, that is, the subjective being – this, however, conceived without subject, that is, conceived as a being different from it – into the Divine and Absolute Being.
Feuerbach

 
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