TOPIC 4: ATHEISM Flashcards
- Denial of God
- Denies the proposition of God
- Way of Explaining the World
ATHEISM
Truth, Morality and Meaning of Life
Theism and Atheism
2 world categories?
Transcendent and Immanence
Beyond the world (absolute). We can find happiness. Ex: heaven
Transcendent
- Physical world (changing). Profane, contingent.
- The here and now
Immanence
True or fale: In atheism, world is immanet (temporary or changing)
TRUE
Everything is explained through God
Atheism and Theism
Ludwig Feuerbarch described the world as _____
Immanent
Other way to explain relogion?
Science
According to him, Religion is an Illusion and Delusion
- past-phase in man’s intellectual progression
Ludwig Feuerbach
Meaning of “the study of God, is studying of Man”
Theology is Anthropology
Acordding to ____ influence, The God of Christians is not a mature God.
- cultivayed master and slave reltionship
Religion as mere sentimentality
Unhappy consciend
Hegel Influenced
God as Master and Absolute, so believers are slaves
Master slave relationship
Master and Slave Relationship to Unhappy Conscience =
Self Deprecation
Christianity is all about?
LOVE
In perfume of an empty vase, the vase is?
Christianity or religion
In perfume of an empty vase, the perfume is?
The ideals and values
For feuerbach, we keep believing because the feeling of?
Comfortable feeling, GUILTY
For hegel, this guilty is?
Unhappy conscience
Attribute your feeling, desired to others. (you pass your attributes)
Projection
According to _____, religion is as projection.
Atheistic Humanism
- This hinders or prevent.
- nature as finite or being limited
Finitude (anti-thesis)
As perfect being and unchanging
God
Manifesting and God’s Immense
Human Desires (thesis)
For feuerbach, prayer is a way of talking to our?
Self
Since we are finite, we project our desires to ?
God
Negative thesis: feeling of an other to yourself
Alienation
For _______, we are motivated by materials desire
Karl max
For _____ spiritual desires to God
Feuerbach
For Larl Max, all materials products are owned by?
Capitalistscapitalist
For feuerbach, all spiritual desires are owned by?
God
Any belief in this transcendent world are all?
Projections