On Marx's Criticism And Transcendence Of Feuerbach's Thoughts On Religions

The criticism of religions,as an important part of Marx's thoughts,may be called the inception of the great philosophical revolution made by Marx,which makes Marx finally get his unique way out of the forerunners in the history of philosophy.Marx's thoughts on religion enjoys the outstanding feature of consisting of religion criticism,speculative philosophy criticism and society criticism as a whole.And Marx grasps the genuine of the birth,development and the outcome of religions because his criticism is built on the comprehensive analysis of history,society,economy and human.Undoubtedly,Feuerbach's thoughts on religion plays a role of great significance in the formation and perfection of Marx's thoughts on religion.The humanistic elements and perceptual principles in Feuerbach's thoughts on religion give priceless train of thought to Marx,which is profound.While Marx accept the rational content of Feuerbach's thoughts on religion,he get rather upset about the abstract and emptiness of Feuerbach's thoughts.And finally,through hard work in theoretical field,Marx put forward historical materialism.One the basis of historical materialism,Marx criticizes the secular foundation of religions,including the aspects of real world's politics,economy and etc.Eventually,Marx's concept of practice unifies human,nature,society and history.Marx puts the hope of human liberation on the shoulder of the proletariat,and get it fixed in human practice,which surpasses Feuerbach's thoughts on religion on all aspects.The thesis falls into four chapters:Chapter one,the theoretical premises of Feuerbach's thoughts on religion will be analyzed historically,as well as Feuerbach's process of criticizing Hegel's thoughts on religion and the thinkers'in French Enlightenment Movement and thinkers' in Germany Religion Criticism Movement.And the formation process of Feuerbach's thoughts on religion will also be examined,together with its core content and the relations between its core content;Chapter two,specific details of Marx's criticism of Feuerbach's thoughts on religion will be represented.Marx criticizes the Feuerbach's theories of abstract human nature,alienation and the hypocrisy and fraudulence of the religion of love.Although Feuerbach realizes the alienation of human nature creates religions,he fails to find the true reasons for this phenomenon,and he cannot lead the way to criticism on the secular basis of religions;Chapter three,Marx's transcend to Feuerbach will be presented in mainly three aspects:real human and abstract human,sensual activity and sensual existence,human liberation and the religion of love.Special attention must be paid to the transformation of Marx' s criticism fields,namely from philosophy field to secular world,which is the key of Marx's transcend over Feuerbach.Chapter four,the theoretical and practical meaning of Marx's religion criticism will be explained in this chapter.In the first place,Marxism is definitely not any kind of religion because philosophy is very different from religion;and secondly,the CCP and center government of China must handle the religion issue in China well and keep religion and the construction of socialist society with Chinese characteristics in harmony because of the chronicity and complexity of religions.The Party and governments need to lead the way for religions to become a positive force rather than the negative one in building socialist society with Chinese characteristics drive.And thus,people with religion belief and others can be compatible closely around the Party and governments,together we make contributions to realizing the great rejuvenation of Chinese nation drive.