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Feuerbach

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Feu·er·bach  (foir-bä), Ludwig Andreas von 1804-1872.
German philosopher and anthropologist whose major work, The Essence of Christianity (1841), maintains that religion and divinity are projections of human nature.

Feuerbach (German) [ˈfɔɪərbax]
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(Biographies / Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas (1804-1872) M, German, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Ludwig Andreas (ˈluːtvɪç anˈdreːas). 1804-72, German materialist philosopher: in The Essence of Christianity (1841), translated into English by George Eliot (1853), he maintained that God is merely an outward projection of man's inner self


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