A antropologia de Feuerbach como crítica à religião: conceituação do homem e natureza

Abstract

The religious criticism made by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872)is constituted by a reframing that has man as the main object of religion.With this, he develops what became known as anthropological atheism. In the following text, we will develop some points that we believe are important for such an analysis contribution on the theme. We will demonstrate how Feuerbach understands the essence of religion as an anthropological essence. We will analyze what the author understands by religion and what he understands by theology. The Christian religion as a manifestation ofhuman feelings and desires and how it is poisoned by theological doctrines. The conceptions of nature in pantheistic religions and in Christianity and how the relationship between man and her occurs in both moments. The integral man theory only reaches its completion through an analysis that conceptualizes man as an individual, sensitive and plural being, his relationship with religion and his relationship with nature. Feuerbach intends to overcome religious alienation through the emancipation of conscience and the recognition of man with his environment. Thus, the work in question has as its central objective to deal with the theory of integral man defended by the German philosopher. For this, we will go through debates that we believe to be of paramount importance in defending such arguments. To support our research, we used as the main work The essence of Christianity(1841). However, we also developed detailed readings of other works that we found interesting to compose the arguments of such research, such as, Lectures on the essence of religion(1851), The essence of religion(1846), Principles of the philosophy of the future(1843) and For the critique of Hegel's philosophy(1839).For secondary support, a bibliographic review was made of commentators who also work on the theme of Feuerbachian anthropology