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    Feuerbach's atheism fails to escape the essential structu... — Carmelics
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    Feuerbach's atheism fails to escape the essential structure of religion because it preserves the positing of an essence over the individual.

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    • 1.Feuerbach's 'species-being' (Gattungswesen) functions as a normative standard against which individuals are measured and found deficient.
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    • 2.Any philosophical structure that posits a normative essence logically prior to concrete individuals replicates the alienation-structure Feuerbach himself diagnosed in theology.
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    • 3.Marx recognized this in the Theses on Feuerbach: abstracting 'human essence' into a universal dissolves the actual individual into a generic category, preserving religious abstraction.
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    • 1.Kierkegaard's critique of Hegelian universalism establishes that subordinating the singular existing individual to any universal concept—divine or humanistic—constitutes the same existential violence.
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    • 2.Feuerbach's humanism demands that the individual recognize themselves primarily as an instance of universal Man, making self-alienation structurally mandatory rather than contingently theological.
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    • 1.Religion is essentially characterized by the subordination of the individual to 'spirit' in any of its guises.
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    • 2.Feuerbach replaces God with 'Man' (a deified prescriptive account of human nature) as the supreme essence.
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    • 3.The real kernel of religion is the positing of an 'essence over me', not the specific identity of the divine subject.
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    Stirner might be said to pick up this, perhaps idiosyncratic, characterisation of “true atheism” and run with it. Stirner maintains that religion, properly understood, is characterised by the subordination of the individual to “spirit” in any of its guises. Consequently, the rejection of God as a transcendental subject leaves the essential character and failing of religion intact. Feuerbach’s perfectionist problematic, Stirner remarks, might have altered “the tinsel” (the divine subject) but it
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