Feuerbach, Ludwig | Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz (essay date 1973)
Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: Tatarkiewicz, Wladyslaw. “Feuerbach and Naturalism.” In Nineteenth Century Philosophy, translated by Chester A. Kisiel, pp. 50-56. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1973.
[In the following excerpt, Tatarkiewicz surveys the position of Feuerbach's thought in relation to naturalism, German idealism, and materialism.]
In Germany after 1830 there was … a change in philosophy. The forerunner of these new trends was Ludwig Feuerbach. Just as Comte and Mill had done, he abandoned transcendental theories in philosophy, metaphysics, and idealism to initiate a minimalistic trend. But conditions in Germany were different from those in France or England. His philosophy, similar to their philosophy in what it opposed, was different in what it asserted: Feuerbach was a materialist.
THE ARRANGEMENT OF PHILOSOPHICAL CAMPS IN GERMANY AROUND 1830
Idealism predominated in...
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