14 definitions
Alienation (n.) is the state of man and society where the essence of man is only present to him in the distorted form of a God, which, rather paradoxically given that man created it in the image of his essence, appears to him as an external, pre-existing creator.
Anthropology (n.) is that doctrine of man which understands the essence of man only in the encounter with man and nature.
Atheism (n.) is the wrongheaded projection into a beyond of ultimate meaning and value because these things, while being discoverable, are blocked in their actualization by existing conditions in the way we have set up the human world.
Atheism (n.) is, in practice, the religion of all men. For all men deny their faith by their acts.
Human nature (n.) is an unchanging force within us, unmodified by direct external influences of any kind.
Human nature (n.) is reflected in religion, but only incompletely. Love is the key to human nature.
An Individual (n.) is possible because we are conscious of our existence as a species among others.
Labor (n.) is the essence of human life (creative labor). It involves making the essence of human life into a physical object. The 'objectification of man's species-life.'.
Matter (n.) is, for Hegel, the self-alienation of spirit, granted reason only to be pronounced a nothingness, negated as theology negates nature poisoned by original sin.
Philosophy (n.) is speculative and mystical empiricism — and must come down from the heaven of speculation into the depths of human misery.
Religion (n.) is the dream of the human mind.