Feuerbach affirms that goodness is, “ personified as God ,” turning God into an object because if God was anything but an object nothing would need to be personified on him.

Marx explicitly developed the notion of critique into the critique of ideology and linked it with the practice of social revolution, as in the famous 11th of his Theses on Feuerbach, " Philosophers have only interpreted the world in certain ways ; the point is to change it.

A year later Marx would write Theses on Feuerbach, best known for the statement that " the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it ".

Marx's tombstone bears the carved message: " WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE ", the final line of The Communist Manifesto, and from the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach ( edited by Engels ): " The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways — the point however is to change it ".

However, Marx famously asserted in the eleventh of his Theses on Feuerbach that " philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways ; the point however is to change it ", and he clearly dedicated himself to trying to alter the world.

According to him, not only is God an alienating ideal, as Feuerbach had argued in The Essence of Christianity ( 1841 ), but so too are humanity itself, nationalism and all ideologies.

Although he is credited for its discovery, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach did not entirely discover the nine-point circle, but rather the six point circle, recognizing the significance of the midpoints of the three sides of the triangle and the feet of the altitudes of that triangle.

In 1822 Karl Feuerbach discovered that any triangle's nine-point circle is externally tangent to that triangle's three excircles and internally tangent to its incircle ; this result is known as Feuerbach's theorem.

The point at which the incircle and the nine-point circle touch is often referred to as the Feuerbach point.

This fact is known as the Feuerbach conic theorem.

The nine-point center is indexed as X ( 5 ), the Feuerbach point, as X ( 11 ), the center of the Kiepert hyperbola as X ( 115 ), and the center of the Jeřábek hyperbola as X ( 125 ).

The point where the nine-point circle touches the incircle is known as the Feuerbach point.

( Some authors, however, point out that Feuerbach, by the end of his life, apparently stopped believing in Hauser ; at least he wrote a note, to be found in his legacy, which read: " Caspar Hauser is a smart scheming codger, a rogue, a good-for-nothing that ought to be killed.

" But there is no indication that Feuerbach, already seriously ill, let Hauser feel this change of opinion.

In 1912 Émile Durkheim, building on Feuerbach, considered religion " a projection of the social values of society ," " a means of making symbolic statements about society ," " a symbolic language that makes statements about the social order "; in short, " religion is society worshiping itself ".

The philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach ( 1804 – 1872 ) analysed religion from the psychologic perspective in The Essence of Christianity ( 1841 ) — divinity is Man ’ s projection of his human nature.

This idealist understanding of philosophy as interpretation was famously challenged by Karl Marx's 11th thesis on Feuerbach ( 1845 ): " Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways ; the point, however, is to change it.

Feuerbach talks of how humankind is equally a conscious being, more so than God because humans have placed upon God the ability of understanding.

This projection is dubbed as a chimaera by Feuerbach, that God and the idea of a higher being is dependent upon the aspect of benevolence.

Feuerbach states that, “ a God who is not benevolent, not just, not wise, is no God ,” and continues to say that qualities are not suddenly denoted as divine because of their godly association.

The force of this attraction to religion though, giving divinity to a figure like God, is explained by Feuerbach as God is a being that acts throughout humans in all forms.

Therefore, Feuerbach says, when humans remove all qualities from God, “ God is no longer anything more to him than a negative being .” Additionally, because humans are imaginative, God is given traits and there holds the appeal.

Philosophically, the Entfremdung theory relies upon The Essence of Christianity ( 1841 ), by Ludwig Feuerbach, which argues that the supernatural idea of “ God ” has alienated the natural characteristics of the human being.

In Part I: “ Feuerbach — Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook ” of The German Ideology ( 1846 ), Karl Marx said: “ things have now come to such a pass that the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity, but also, merely to safeguard their very existence ”.

Feuerbach claims that God's only action is, “ the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself ,” because human actions are placed upon God.

This selfishness turns onto humans and projects them to be wicked and corrupt, that they are, “ incapable of good ,” and it is only God that is good, “ the Good Being .” In this way Feuerbach detracts from many of his earlier assertions while showing the alienation that takes place in humans by worshipping God.

Feuerbach tries to lessen his inconsistency by asking if it were possible if, “ I could perceive the beauty of a fine picture if my mind were aesthetically an absolute piece of perversion ?” Through Feuerbach ’ s reasoning it would not be possible, but it is possible, and he later states that humans are capable of finding beauty.

In his book For Marx ( 1965 ), Louis Althusser claims that “ in On the Jewish Question, Hegel ’ s Philosophy of the State, etc., and even usually in The Holy Family (...) Marx was merely applying the theory of alienation, that is, Feuerbach ’ s theory of ‘ human nature ’, to politics and the concrete activity of man, before extending it ( in large part ) to political economy in the Manuscripts ”.

Feuerbach claims that God's only action is, “ the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself ,” because man's actions are placed upon God.

This selfishness turns onto man and projects man to be wicked and corrupt, that they are, “ incapable of good ,” and it is only God that is good, “ the Good Being .” In this way Feuerbach detracts from many of his earlier assertions while showing the alienation that takes place in man by worshipping God.

Feuerbach tries to lessen his inconsistency by asking if it were possible if, “ I could perceive the beauty of a fine picture if my mind were aesthetically an absolute piece of perversion ?” Through Feuerbach ’ s reasoning it would not be possible, but it is possible, and he later states that man is capable of finding beauty.

The atheist philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach sought to dissolve theology in his work Principles of the Philosophy of the Future: " The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Feuerbach shows that in every aspect God corresponds to some feature or need of human nature.

Feuerbach also contradicts himself by claiming that humans give up their personality and place it upon God who, in turn, is a selfish being.

Max Stirner claimed that all ideals were inherently alienating, and that replacing God by the Humanity, as did Ludwig Feuerbach in The Essence of Christianity ( 1841 ), was not sufficient.

What distinguished Marx from Feuerbach was his view of Feuerbach's humanism as excessively abstract, and so no less ahistorical and idealist than what it purported to replace, namely the reified notion of God found in institutional Christianity that legitimized the repressive power of the Prussian state.

Rather than simply a polemic, Stirner's work uses Feuerbach's idea of God as a human abstraction as the basis of his critique of Feuerbach.

Feuerbach talks of how man is equally a conscious being, more so than God because man has placed upon God the ability of understanding.

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Furthermore, he criticized Feuerbach's conception of human nature in his sixth thesis on Feuerbach as an abstract " kind " which incarnated itself in each singular individual: " Feuerbach resolves the essence of religion into the essence of man ( menschliche Wesen, human nature ).

Furthermore because of the Feuerbach conic theorem mentioned above, there exists a unique rectangular circumconic, centered at the common intersection point of the four nine-point circles, that passes through the four original arbitrary points as well as the orthocenters of the four triangles.

Feuerbach states that, " a God who is not benevolent, not just, not wise, is no God ", and continues to say that qualities are not suddenly denoted as divine because of their godly association.