Ludwig Feuerbachâs Revolutionary Understanding of Religion Based on the Feeling of Absolute Dependence

KristÃ­na BosÃ¡kovÃ¡

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Pages:: 313â330

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Ludwig Feuerbach is offering a detailed analysis of the practical causes of religion. These causes can be defined in two ways, there are the epistemological ones and the emotional ones. In this paper I will be focusing on the emotional causes that have been standing behind the necessity of religion and eventually also behind the modern natural sciences, explaining them on the basis of Feuerbachâs anthropology and philosophy of religion. Why during the Enlightenment period was the belief in the almighty God replaced by the belief in the almighty science and the almighty individual, what has caused the return of religion into politics in the post-modern and post-factual age, or how can the feeling of vulnerability and absolute dependence be seen standing even behind the divisions in the society and what remedy for these divisions might Feuerbachâs philosophy of dialogical communication offer?

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On Revolt, Rebellion and Revolution

Navigating the Challenges of Human Conflict

Series:Â New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, Volume: 14

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Print Publication Date:: 14 Nov 2025

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