Abstract:
The issue of the present research is based on the criticism of Feuerbach's intellectual foundations in The Essence of Christianity and through the quotation and analysis of Feuerbach's sayings in this book criticizes and comments on them. The findings of the present research indicate that although Feuerbach's statements in The Essence of Christianity are challenging and in some cases express the truth, but because they are involved of internal contradictions, incomplete induction, and arbitrary statements without providing rational evidence, they are subject to the description of incoherence. However, those like Feuerbach can be called the secular editors of religion, who criticized not with a positive approach, but with the aim of negating religious knowledge. In other words, the result of Feuerbach's work, parallel to the work of true religious reformers, can practically be seen as a service to religion. Based on the present research, it is also known that Feuerbach, from a different perspective, to solve the problem of religion and traditional theology, suggests passage from religion due to its allocation to the pre-modern era, turning religious theology into religious anthropology and finally turning to materialist philosophy and pantheism in the modern world.