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Title: The Essence of Christianity (Great Books in Philosophy) by Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot ISBN: 0879755598 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4
Rating: 5
Summary: I've seen the light!
Comment: This book needs to be back on College Philosophy and Religion reading lists! Never before have I read such a clear and obvious explanation of the religious mind. Wonderful translation and editing work by George Eliot make this a revolutionary work of religious philosophy. I'm a wife, mother, English Literature graduate and a spiritual seeker whose life was changed by reading Feuerbach's analysis of God as our subjective projection as Other. Please don't let your questing mind miss this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: A document of human motivation
Comment: I read this book in search of the philosophical roots of Max Stirner, author of The Ego and Its Own. For this purpose, the book is excellent; you can see where Max Stirner came from on a number of issues that had hitherto seemed a bit cloudy to me - both in what Stirner reacts to and what he has drawn on.
The book is, however, a very compelling read in its own right as well. Feuerbach takes us through literally the whole catalogue of Christian belief, and shows us how each item of belief is explained at least as well - or perhaps even better - as an anthropomorphism rather than as a supernatural manifestation. It must be said, though, that each single one of his arguments on their own do not lead to such a conviction. Just like you are not convinced that the dice are loaded by getting 6 once or twice, you will not be convinced if anthropomorphism fits the bill of Christianity in a few single instances. However - analogously with the dice - when you strike 6 nearly every time, you will be convinced that the dice are loaded.
If I have a criticism of Feuerbach, it is that after he has revealed the Essence of Christianity as being the worship of Man, he keeps the essence and only discards the accidental properties of Christianity, i.e. the supernaturalism. This was also what Max Stirner called him on. But my disagreement does not mean a disparagement of the value of the book. So I recommend it as a read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very us
Comment: I read this book in search of the philosophical roots of Max Stirner, author of The Ego and Its Own. For this purpose, the book is excellent; you can see where Max Stirner came from on a number of issues that had hitherto seemed a bit cloudy to me - both in what Stirner reacts to and what he has drawn on.
The book is, however, a very compelling read in its own right as well. Feuerbach takes us through literally the whole catalogue of Christian belief, and shows us how each item of belief is explained at least as well - or perhaps even better - as an anthropomorphism rather than as a supernatural manifestation. It must be said, though, that each single one of his arguments on their own do not lead to such a conviction. Just like you are not convinced that the dice are loaded by getting 6 once or twice, you will not be convinced if anthropomorphism fits the bill of Christianity in a few single instances. However - analogously with the dice - when you strike 6 nearly every time, you will be convinced that the dice are loaded.
If I have a criticism of Feuerbach, it is that after he has revealed the Essence of Christianity as being the worship of Man, he keeps the essence and only discards the accidental properties of Christianity, i.e. the supernaturalism. This was also what Max Stirner called him on. But my disagreement does not mean a disparagement of the value of the book. So I recommend it as a read.
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Title: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion (Oxford World's Classics) by David Hume, J. C. A. Gaskin ISBN: 0192838768 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393008312 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Principles of the Philosophy of the Future by Ludwig Feuerbach ISBN: 0915145278 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The German Ideology: Including Thesis on Feuerbach (Great Books in Philosophy) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx ISBN: 1573922587 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: I And Thou by Martin Buber ISBN: 0684717255 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: March, 1974 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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