Ludwig Feuerbach – Philosophical Pioneer of Contemporaneity

Abstract

To contribute towards the current revival of the philosophical thought of Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach 1804- 1872 with his pioneering exposition of various contemporary issues Individual Differences Statue of Democracy and Sciences Sustainable Development Dietetics Gymnastics Unconscious Desires Intercultural Dialogues and others The author applies Feuerbach s own organic or critical-genetic method in which phenomena are understood through their origins to grasp Feuerbachian insights His Philosophy is examined through his concept of self-objectification among his fundamental concepts as the guiding principle of Feuerbach s formulations both as a result of explicitly pantheistic naturalistic and republican influences and as a conceptual basis for transcending them as they evolved philosophically Italian philosophical pantheism through its genetic-critical methodology Western scientific naturalism through its postulation of technological alliances with inhuman nature and European democratic republicanism through its prediction of the institutional conditions for a future human community