Sentido da crítica à religião no pensamento de Ludwig Feuerbach

Abstract

The reflection on the religious problem is the Centre of the concerns of Ludwig Feuerbach in his work. He primarily proposes the reduction from theology to anthropology given to understand that the mysteries about God and religion can be explained by the Knowledge of man. His thinking, which holds that on the basis of it all is nature, it come indicating that this creates either God or religion. The religion, just human prerrogative, in order to counteract the feeling of dependence and placate the wishes, reveals, in the origins, through the solemn celebrations, marking the devotion to nature. God is the result, in turn, of their imagination and their ability to fantasize and represent. The goal of Feuerbach’s presenting that God and religion are a mirror of man, bringing in its base, the essence of it, something that, in fact, needs to be aware. But, as a result of this thought, contrary to the dictates of tradition, he is branded an atheist and enemy of religion. I intend, in this article, to characterize the meaning of the problem of religion in Feuerbach in order to fend off these negative ideas about his fallen. To do so, i will make an analysis of multiple excerpts from his three major books, to the extent that, in a way that someone can understand that religion is something necessary to man and that it cannot be extinguished from its life, since the pursuit of its growth, aiming at reaching the Summit of perfection passes by its advance in spiritual terms and the enlargement of its sensitivity.