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		THESES ON FEUERBACH Karl Marx -- 1845 I The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the _object or of contemplation_, but not as _sensuous human activity, practice_, not subjectively.
		Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence, is consequently compelled: 1.
		VII Feuerbach, consequently, does not see that the "religious sentiment" is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual whom he analyses belongs to a particular form of society.
	eserver.org /marx/1845-feuerbach.theses.txt (605 words)

	Marx theses on Feurerbach
		Feuerbach maintained God is a human projection resulting from the alienation of the human self and its historical, social activity.
		Whereas Feuerbach maintains that "God" is the human self projected onto a cosmic screen, and religion is therefore inherently an exercise in one's self-alienation, the non-religious, secular sphere is equally self-contradicted.
		Feuerbach, having jettisoned the religious as real, is left with the human as real, which reality (or human essence) he locates in the individual.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Course/Philosophy/philosophy_for_understanding_theology50.htm (484 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively.
		Feuerbach starts out from the fact of religious self-alienation, of the duplication of the world into a religious world and a secular one.
		Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence, is consequently compelled: (1) To abstract from the historical process and to fix the religious sentiment as something by itself and to presuppose an abstract - isolated - human individual.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /dictionary/dict_f1.php (2521 words)

	Philosophy- Squashed Marx - The German Ideology - Condensed Abridged
		These innocent childlike fancies are the kernel of the Young-Hegelian philosophy which the present publication aims to uncloak, to show how their bleating merely imitates the conceptions of the German middle class.
		As far as Feuerbach is a materialist he does not deal with history, and as far as he considers history he is not a materialist.
		These conditions appear first as self-activity, later as fetters up on it, to form the whole evolution of history which is the evolution of productive forces.
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	THE CASE OF LUDWIG FEUERBACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		These are swallowed on the authority of mere plausible edification for the credulous, or, more generally, the student's sycophantish awe of the institutions which have the power to certify his success or failure to his future employers.
		These days, the necessary qualifications for a genuine, commendable, and “kosher” scholar — at least for a scholar whose science brings him in contact with the delicate questions of the age — are a confused head, inactive heart, unconcern for truth, and a spiritlessness — in short, a lack of character.
		Feuerbach brings himself thus to a shrieking state of sentimental hysteria on the issue of his own mother and his Ego's morbid fascination with her sadistic love.
	www.ex-iwp.org /docs/1973/feuerbach.htm (12727 words)

	Theses on Feuerbach
		The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism –; that of Feuerbach included – is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively.
		Feuerbach resolves the religious essence into the human essence.
		Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence, is consequently compelled:
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm (636 words)

	Ludwig Feuerbach . . . End of Clasical German Philosophy
		These are notes hurriedly scribbled down for later elaboration, absolutely not intended for publication, but invaluable as the first document in which the brilliant germ of the new world outlook is deposited.
		Feuerbach was unquestionably right when he rejected responsibility for this materialism; only he should not have confounded the doctrines of these itinerant preachers with materialism in general.
		Feuerbach's morality either presupposes that these means and objects of satisfaction are given to every individual as a matter of course, or else offers only inapplicable good advice and is, therefore, just so much hot air to people lacking these means.
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	Theses on Feuerbach
		The "Theses on Feuerbach" are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845.
		But the text is often seen as more ambitious than this, criticizing the contemplative materialism of the Young Hegelians alongside all forms of philosophical idealism.
		Marx did not publish the "Theses on Feuerbach" during his lifetime; they were later edited by Engels and published in 1888, with the original text emerging in 1924.
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		These different interpretations--each with their own proponents--have had a major impact on the course of political events in the 20th century.
		These interpretations of Marx continue to shape political movements right up to the present day, as evidenced by the differences between, say, the millenarian Marxist movements in Cambodia and the more mechanistic Marxism of Castro's revolution in Cuba.
		Students are expected to master the logic embedded in these themes, evaluate their political significance, and trace their emigration into radical movements far from the German, French, and English revolutions they were intended to guide.
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	Conclusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		These charges stemmed from struggle during an earlier court-martial of PL’er Bilazarian for distributing PL literature at the base.
		These organizations fight around questions of racism (especially around the oppression of fl campus workers), against imperialism on campus (fights to abolish Reserve Officer Training Programs), and build strike support (thus during the General Motors strike, SDS has closed down a number of dealerships.) In other words, we help to develop a worker-student-faculty alliance.
		Their hatred of the people is so intense that these cop/lunatics hailed the much-played-up Tate murders because of the degree to which the senseless violence was involved.
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	Body
		On these terms, were Marx to posit the "human essence" as an ethical ideal, Hegelian philosophy would already have transcended it in thought through the demonstration of the relative rationality of what is. Alienation might, like the police courts Hegel deduces from the Idea, remain as an unpleasant fact of practical life.
		These interests Habermas distinguishes from those of everyday practical affairs by their enormous generality, which makes of them transcendental conditions of possible objectivity for the spheres of knowledge they determine.
		These objections might be put in the form of questions that implicitly challenge the very idea of a unity of theory and practice or a realization of philosophy in Marx's and Lukács' sense.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/luk1.htm (10072 words)

	Activist Materialism
		As the well known 11th Thesis on Feuerbach says, for Marxists the point is to change the world; change the world through activism, practical-critical activity in the material world.
		Marx in the Theses on Feuerbach corrected the then predominant error of materialism which was the failure to treat the subject (the acting individual person) as active.
		The idea of this 11th theses was not that revolutionaries should _stop_ interpreting the world as philosophers and start changing it.
	www.marxmail.org /archives/may98/journal_theory.htm (1377 words)

	normblog: The Feuerbach XI
		The Feuerbach XI This may be the most esoteric item ever posted at normblog.
		Any reader who was ever seized by a passion to uncover the truth, who has felt the force of a tantalizing hypothesis when it has taken possession of his or her soul, will understand why I can do no other, by considering this.
		It would seem not to have been commented upon that the same number of theses make up Marx's famous Theses on Feuerbach as there are members of a properly constituted cricket team.
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	Feuerbach - Provisional Theses for the Reformation of Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In that its entire system rests upon these acts of abstraction, Hegelian philosophy has estranged the human-being from its very self It of course re-identifies what it separates, but only in a manner which is itself in turn separable and intermediate.
		While Feuerbach viewed his own philosophy of religion as the result of opposition to Hegel’s philosophy, Bauer viewed his work as an explication of Hegel.
		Feuerbach, nevertheless a spiritual brother, scarcely to be distinguished from him.’ Angered, Feuerbach responded with ‘Zur Beurteilung der Schrift “Das Wesen des Christentums” in Deutschen Jahrbuchern, February 1842.
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	Karl Marx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Feuerbach's distinctive contribution was to argue that worshipping God diverted human beings from enjoying their own human powers.
		The Theses on Feuerbach contain one of Marx's most memorable remarks ‘the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it’ (thesis 11).
		Therefore these functional explanations are sustained by a complex causal feedback loop in which dysfunctional elements tend to be filtered out in competition with better functioning elements.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/spr2004/entries/marx (7464 words)

	Marx's ``Theses on Feuerbach'' A Summary
		Marx's ``Theses on Feuerbach'' is an attack on the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach, and more generally on materialist philosophy prior to Marx.
		What Feuerbach fails to recognize, in Marx's view, is that religious sentiment and human essence or human nature are themselves social products (§7), and that society is ``essentially practical,'' which is to say, society consists primarily in the intercourse of people on a practical basis.
		In Feuerbach's conception, society can only be understood as a collection of individuals (§9), whereas, once practical activity is properly accounted for, society can be understood as ``associated humanity,'' which is more closely connected in their shared engagement in practical activity for human ends (§10).
	thm.askee.net /articles/thesesonfeuerbach (497 words)

	Marx on Kierkegaard
		Karl Marx has a clearly expressed critique of Ludwig Feuerbach; this critique is contained in Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach." Of course there is no expressed criticism by Marx of Søren Kierkegaard since Marx was not familiar with Kierkegaard's works.
		Feuerbach's analysis of Christianity is essentially a passive one (i.e.
		Feuerbach's analysis of Christianity is primarily psychological (mental vs practical), which is history--contemplation is not.
	kevin.davnet.org /articles/marx_kierkegaard.html (1328 words)

	University of Helsinki - Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
		In his Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx (1845) pointedly characterized the two pitfalls of social theory: "The chief defect of all previous materialism...
		The cultural-historical theory of activity was initiated a group of revolutionary Russian psychologists in the 1920s and 1930s, determined to turn the spirit of the Feuerbach theses into a new approach to understanding and transforming human life.
		It is these challenges that the third generation of activity theory must deal with.
	www.edu.helsinki.fi /activity/pages/chatanddwr/chat (917 words)

	Max’s Philosophy as Practical Hermeneutics
		Theses on Feuerbach Marx writes: “all social life is essentially practical, all mysteries which lead theory into mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.”
		Here what is denied by Marx is not the history of various forms of consciousness, but the illusion which thinks that these forms of consciousness have their own independent history.
		Theses on Feuerbach, Marx has already pointed definitely out: “the chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively.”
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	LINES
		Even when such schools call for the people to participate in peace building, it is only a limited, narrow view of conflict between two parties in power, and a corresponding view of the peace that they promote, and will not support popular struggles in their multiplicity against the variety of the forms of power.
		These are the dangers of making politics an abstract, science of management.
		Furthermore, this is not a politics that is born out of the practice of activism in engagement with theory; rather it is a product of state and academic bureaucracies in the West exported to the elites of the Third World.
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	Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx
		Feuerbach wants sensuous objects [Objekte], differentiated from thought-objects, but he does not conceive human activity itself as objective [gegenständliche] activity.
		Feuerbach starts off from the fact of religious self-estrangement [Selbstentfremdung], of the duplication of the world into a religious, imaginary world, and a secular [weltliche] one.
		Feuerbach consequently does not see that the ‘religious sentiment’ is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual that he analyses belongs in reality to a particular social form.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1845/theses (763 words)

	Marx and the Young Hegelians
		This is unlikely, for in these eleven short paragraphs Marx addresses, in a startlingly compact form, some of the deepest philosophical questions there are.
		In all of the Theses, from the complex and (relatively) sprawling First Thesis to the (deceptively) simple clarion call of the Eleventh, Marx is concerned with the question of the relationship between theory and practice.
		Marx argues there that it's not enough for Feuerbach to point out that religion is ultimately a form of illusion in order to do away with it: something is causing religious people to labour under that illusion, and the problem will remain until these real causes are identified and addressed.
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	Physics.html
		These more implicit than explicit sides of Marx remained virtually undeveloped until quite recently because of the ideologization of his work described in Thesis 3.
		The vulgar Marxist recapitulation of the pre-Kantian 18th century materialism, as the ideology of a substitute bourgeois revolution, had no use for a "creation cosmology", particularly insofar as actual bourgeois natural science, which was its model, continued to score further apparent successes based on the same ideology.
		These problems would only come to a head through and after the 1968-1973 onset of the world economic/ecology crisis, the END of the phase of accumulation centered on relative surplus-value which had begun after 1850.
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	These on Feuerbach
		Feuerbach, not satisfied with abstract thinking, wants contemplation; but he does not conceive sensuousness as practical, human-sensuous activity.
		Feuerbach, consequently, does not see that the "religious sentiment" is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual whom he analyses belongs to a particular form of society.
		XI The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /strickland/495/etexts/feuer.html (583 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Comrade Freeman, "Leo Strauss and American Politics"
		But for Strauss theses thinkers have misdiagnosed the crisis of modernity, the problem as he views it is the problem of relativism.
		These objects project shadows upon the wall which the prisoners see and play a game naming them, at the same time when the man carrying shapes speak the prisoners believe the noises come from the shadows.
		The civil war continued until PDPA was no longer able to hold together the factions that constituted their government, thus in 1992 the Mujahideen who had only been united through anti-communist sentiments took power divided in two main groups, the radical Taliban which created the central government and the Northern Alliance controlled provincial areas.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The German Ideology Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to the Critique of Political ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Foremost among these issues is the actual role of the political philosopher in society and in history.
		First of all, the correct title would refer to the THESES on Feuerbach, of which there are eleven.
		These are terse exhortations, which Marx apparently wrote out for himself as a reminder of principles, not intended for publication.
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