A Study Of The Philosophical Implications Of Feuerbach's Critique Of Religion

The criticism of Hegel’s speculative philosophy is the theoretical core of Feuerbach’s religious criticism,so Feuerbach’s religious criticism must have a strong philosophical meaning.The Essence of Christianity,published in 1841,inherits the spirit of Criticism of Hegel ’s Philosophy and is the most representative book that Feuerbach wrote during his religious criticism.In this book,Feuerbach has not only been a critic of the field of religion,the problems he solves have not only been specific problems in the field of religion,but also run through the fundamental principle of "the principle of perceptual objectivity" in religion.The whole process of criticism can be said that the book "The Essence of Christianity" is a required reading for us to understand Feuerbach’s religious criticism,and it is the key to our understanding and grasp of Feuerbach’s philosophy.Feuerbach ’s critical theory of religion aroused the great ideological resonance of Marx and provided an important reference for the development of Marxist theory.From the perspective of Marx’s practical materialism,Feuerbach is the terminator of religious criticism,and reaches the highest theoretical height of the contemporary philosopher of the young Hegelian school,which has also become an important reason for Feuerbach’s reputation.However,Feuerbach did not really understand and surpass Hegel,did not see the reasonable core of Hegel ’s philosophy,because the lack of the important dimension of "history",so that his "sensible object principle" could not really Overcoming speculative philosophy and the fatal mistakes in the path of religious criticism make Feuerbach’s adherence to materialism only an intuitive materialism.Marx ’s religious critical position was born out of Feuerbach ’s system of religious criticism and surpassed Feuerbach ’s system of religious criticism.In essence,it was Marx ’s “sensual objectivity principle activity” to Feuerbach ’s “sensibility objectivity principle” Beyond,Feuerbach did not extend his philosophical horizon to a new philosophical world,and truly realized a leap in the sense of ontology.Marx ’s attitude towards Feuerbach ’s philosophy first appeared in the “Manuscript of Economics and Philosophy in 1844”,especially in the third part “Criticism of Hegel ’s Dialectics and the Whole Philosophy”.The analysis of "Berbach’s Three Great Contributions" can further clarify the relationship between Hegel,Feuerbach and Marx,and then excavate Feuerbach’s value and limitations to the construction of Marx’s practical materialism.This paper is divided into four parts to discuss the philosophical implications of Feuerbach’s religious criticism: The first part describes the background of Feuerbach’s religious criticism.First of all,the German philosophers of the eighteenth century bear the double imprint of German classical philosophy and religious philosophy.Feuerbach ’s religious criticism originated from the Christian German world in which he lived.Secondly,as a member of the young Hegels,Feuerbach was deeply influenced by philosophers of the same age as Powell and Strauss,and the research object of religion began to enter Feuerbach ’s theoretical research horizon.And gradually showed systematic characteristics in the development of his philosophical thoughts;the second part deeply analyzes and summarizes the course of Feuerbach ’s religious criticism from the perspective of the history of philosophy.Feuerbach ’s history of philosophical development is a history of religious criticism,which can be summarized in a series of works from "Hegel ’s Criticism of Philosophy" to "Essence of Christianity" to "Principles of Future Philosophy" The double faces of Baha’s critical theory are religious criticism and philosophical criticism.In this part,we can see that "The Essence of Christianity" is not only a representative work of its religious critique,but also its underlying theoretical logical relationship with philosophical critique.The key to the theory of Critique of Rebahar’s religion;the third part focuses on the value and limitations of Feuerbach’s criticism of religion.Feuerbach stood at the theoretical height and theoretical position of the "sensual object principle" in which "sensibility" and "objectivity" were unified,and launched his double criticism.It is a kind of raising religious criticism to philosophical criticism.Deep philosophical conclusions.Because of the lack of theoretical depth of "practice",Feuerbach cannot correctly expose the essence of man and the social roots of religion,nor can he truly understand the largest theoretical contribution of Hegel’s philosophy—”dialectics of labor,thus losing history Into the dilemma of theoretical barrenness;the fourth part focuses on evaluating Feuerbach from the perspective of Marx’s practical materialism,and analyzing Feuerbach based on Marx’s evaluation of Feuerbach’s three great merits The fundamental impact of religious criticism on early Marx.It is worth noting that the important role of Feuerbach ’s critical thinking on religion is mainly reflected in three aspects: one is that the object of philosophical research turns from nature to people,the second is the creative use of the "sensible objectivity" philosophy research method,and the third is Reshaping the basic principle of philosophical theory of social relations.Marx’s philosophical revolution abandoned Feuerbach’s critical theory of religion,and realized the transcendence of Feuerbach’s humanistic materialism in essence.In short,Feuerbach ’s religious criticism represented by "The Essence of Christianity" not only criticized Hegel’s speculative idealist philosophy,but also tried to surpass the young Hegelian religious critical theory,and inspired the early Marx’s Philosophy has important theoretical value.