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He argued that God is nothing but humanity's own best qualities, projected outward and mistaken for someone else, and handed the young Karl Marx a method he would turn on economics itself.
He argued that philosophy had been describing the world when it should be changing it, and then described it more precisely than almost anyone.
Connection
Ludwig Feuerbach religion as projection, extended to economics Karl Marx — Marx found Feuerbach's unmasking of religion as human projection liberating before writing his brief, blistering Theses on Feuerbach, arguing that Feuerbach never asked what economic conditions made humans need such projections in the first place.
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“Man made God in his own image.”
“The turning point of history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only God of man is man himself.”
“Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
Key Moments
1841
Publishes The Essence of Christianity
1840s
Withdraws to rural isolation
1849
Permanent exile in London
1867
Capital, Volume I published
Works
The Essence of Christianity
Capital, Volume I