The Essence of Christianity (Feuerbach) - The Essence of Christianity

Japanese: 《キリスト教の本質》(フォイエルバハ) - きりすときょうのほんしつ
The Essence of Christianity (Feuerbach) - The Essence of Christianity

…Born into a family of scholars, his father was the famous criminal law scholar P.A. von Feuerbach. After studying under Hegel at the University of Berlin and becoming deeply devoted to him, he became a private lecturer at the University of Erlangen. However, he lost his job after publishing a critical essay on Christianity, “Reflections on Death and Immortality” (1830), and thereafter continued to lecture in the city. In his major work, “The Essence of Christianity” (1841), he argued that while humans are finite, imperfect, and powerless as individuals, they are infinite in their “general essence,” which is their reason, will, and love. What has been alienated and worshipped as “God” is none other than the “general essence” of humans. …

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Japanese:

…有名な刑法学者P.J.A.vonフォイエルバハを父として,学者一家に生まれ,ベルリン大学でヘーゲルに学んで深く傾倒した後,エルランゲン大学私講師となったが,キリスト教批判の論文《死および不死についての考察》(1830)を発表したために職を失い,以後,市井にあって論述を続けた。 主著《キリスト教の本質》(1841)では,人間は個人としては有限,不完全,非力であるが,〈類的本質〉である理性・意志・愛においては無限であると説いた。〈神〉として疎外され崇拝されてきたものは,人間の〈類的本質〉にほかならない。…

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