Ludwig Feuerbach and the Problem of Corporality in Western Thought Cover Image

Ludwig Feuerbach a problém telesnosti v západnom myslení
Ludwig Feuerbach and the Problem of Corporality in Western Thought

Author(s): Kristına Bosakova, Kristína Bosáková
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Metaphysics, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: VERBUM - vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku
Keywords: body; soul; metaphysics; German idealism; love; symbol;

Summary/Abstract: It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the history of philosophy from Plato to Hegel is the history of a loss of human corporality, which has destructive consequences, because human body is the most universal symbol in every culture and society. Ludwig Feuerbach is trying to return the corporality back to human beings through the rehabilitation of emotions and of the intersubjectivity based on the love between the concrete, personal, physical Me and a concrete, personal, physical You. The Christian idea of God should not be based upon the picture of human being without body, but should closely match the entire and real essence of human being that is primarily rooted in nature.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 86-93
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Slovak