Genealogy of Religion

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Entries Tagged as 'Ludwig Feuerbach'

The Zoroastrian Ethic & Spirit of Modernity

August 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Axial Age, History, Philosophy

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), Max Weber sought to correct or temper Karl Marx’s view that religion was always a reflection or epiphenomenon of the economic base. Although Marx’s understanding of religion was considerably more complicated and drew heavily on Ludwig Feuerbach’s idealist critique in The Essence of Christianity (1841), [...]

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Critical Social Theory & Religion

August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Atheism, Cognition, Economy, Evolutionary Adaptation, Evolutionary Byproduct

As most social and critical theorists know, Karl Marx asserted that the “criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism” (Critique of Hegel, 1843).  This is a startling foundational statement coming from Marx, who also thought that the criticism of religion was complete — a key accomplishment which enabled him to proceed with his [...]

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Did Michelangelo Believe that the Brain Creates God?

June 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cognition, Evolutionary Byproduct, History

In a splendidly illustrated and nicely argued open access article appearing in the journal Neurosurgery, Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo contend that Michelangelo included a portion of the human brain on God’s neck in his Sistine Chapel fresco, “Separation of Light from Darkness,” which was painted in 1511.  I have used another of those frescos [...]

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