O conceito de essência humana a partir da concepção antropológica de Ludwig Feuerbach

Abstract

The present article seeks to present the Feuerbach’s anthropological materialistic conception of human essence. Feuerbach tries to clarify that the human essence should be understood within the limits of the material human condition, what includes too the sensible and physical parts of a human being. It is also intended to emphasize that Feuerbach mantain that the acess to our essence is related to the way we acess the human consciousness and our acess to it has a strictly material condition and also we should approach it exactly this way and not something outside of us or merely abstract as was done by speculative philosophy. The non-alienated human essence is the result of an adequate relation of the human being with those attributes that are strictly human, which are reason, will and heart. Finally, it is intended to present how Feuerbach understands the human essence and what should be the condition for man's contact with his own essence in a non-alienated way, and what is necessary to enable such contact.