Ep. 356: Feuerbach Against Theology (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
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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