Os significados da crítica à religião em Feuerbach

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to highlihght the fundamental ideas and/or determinations concerning to the critique of the structure of religious alienation, as elaborated by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach in his work called The Essence of Christianity. Feurbach grounds the critique of theology in anthropology. In this perspective, God establishes himself as the estranged or inverted manifestation of objectified generic human qualities. Thus, all attributes assigned to God: love, power, wisdom, justice, infinity and others, are nothing more than strange human potentialities. This opposition between the human and the divine implies an apparent / illusory contradiction which mystifies the essential antagonism between the individual and his gender. Thus, since the human being does not recognize himself in his generic characteristics, he projecting them onto God. In this way, the more predicates one assigns to God more impoverished and emptied the human condition becomes. In this way, there is an inversion in the relationship between subject and predicate, where the individual does not recognize himself as an actor and author of the historical-cultural development and becomes only the spectator of God's designs.