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    God has no existence apart from the existence of human co... — Carmelics
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    God has no existence apart from the existence of human consciousness and of nature.

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    • 1.Every predicate attributed to God—omniscience, love, justice—is intelligible only by analogy to human cognitive and moral capacities.
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    • 2.A being whose entire content is exhausted by humanly-derived predicates cannot possess ontological independence from the minds that generate those predicates.
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    • 3.Feuerbach's projection thesis is thus not merely psychological but logically entailed: God's attributes constitute God's being, and those attributes are human.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that pure reason cannot establish the existence of any being beyond possible experience, collapsing traditional proofs of a mind-independent God.
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    • 2.If the only coherent theological content derives from practical reason—moral ideals, rational teleology—then 'God' names a regulative ideal of human reason, not a transcendent entity.
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    • 3.A being that exists solely as a regulative ideal of human rational practice has no existence apart from the consciousness that posits it.
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    • 1.God, in the theological sense, is God only as long as God is conceived as a being distinguished from the being of man and nature.
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    • 2.The attributes ascribed by theists to God are attributes derived either from human consciousness or from nature.
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    In a previously cited essay published in 1842, which was intended to clarify the differences between Hegel’s philosophy of religion and his own, Feuerbach referred readers seeking to evaluate his argument in The Essence of Christianity to his “Critique of the So-Called Positive Philosophy”, published in the Halle Annals in December, 1838 (B 235). It was there that Feuerbach first put forward the claim that all the “determinations” (Bestimmungen) ascribed by the positive philosophy to God are det
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