Concept
Theses on Feuerbach
Overview
The Theses on Feuerbach are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx as a basic outline for the first chapter of the book The German Ideology in 1845. Like the book for which they were written, the theses were never published in Marx's lifetime, seeing print for the first time in 1888 as an appendix to a pamphlet by his co-thinker Friedrich Engels. The document is best remembered for its epigrammatic 11th and final thesis, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it", which is engraved on Marx's tomb.
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But from the breaking up of the Hegelian school there proceeded another, the only one which has borne real fruit, and this tendency is coupled with the name of Marx.[2]
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
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Lastly, German philosophy, that most complicated, but at the same time most sure thermometer of the development of the German mind, had declared for the middle class, when Hegel in his "Philosophy of Law" pronounced Constitutional Monarchy to be the final and most perfect form of government. In other words, he proclaimed the approaching advent of the middle classes of the country to political power. His school…
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
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In contact with German social conditions, this French literature lost all its immediate practical significance, and assumed a purely literary aspect. Thus, to the German philosophers of the eighteenth century, the demands of the first French Revolution were nothing more than the demands of "Practical Reason" in general, and the utterances of the will of the revolutionary French bourgeoisie signified in their eyes…
Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party
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Philosophers who discussed Theses on Feuerbach
Related ideas
- Epigram
- Karl Marx
- Materialism
- Social relation
- German idealism
- Abstraction
- World War II
- Social change
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- The German Ideology
- Historical materialism
- Friedrich Engels
- Social structure
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Place in the tradition
Part of Continental philosophy.