29 October 2006
why feuerbach is god, ho ho
'Unlike Hegel, for Feuerbach, love (rather than society-sanctioned marriage) is a partnership of equality (and not simply the fusion of heterosexual partners). Pulling 'man' out of the mire also entails rescuing woman. Feuerbach's feminism is therefore quite consistent with his 'properly' universal humanism: 'Whereas with the ancient philosophers love was an illegitimate child begotten with the concubine of nature, with modern philosophers it is the legitimate daughter of their philosophy. Woman has been accepted into the community of the spirit; she is the living compendium of philosophy.' (Feuerbach, 'Fragments Concerning the Characteristics of My Philosophical Development')' - It's an exclusive clip from the long-awaited forthcoming film: PigHD - when thoughts go bad!
