Compare and Contrast Essay Freud/Marx and Tillich/Bultramm
Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are two prominent thinkers. Marx and Freud both believe religion is the godparent of the financial and social system. Marx believes that religion is the opiate of the people. This means that religion is like a strong narcotic drug that dulls the senses of pain, and offers comfort to people in suffering. Sigmund Freud believes that religion as a neurosis and its diagnosis in “The Future of an Illusion” (1927). These two thinkers, both rejected religion and thought it to be make-believe.
Karl Marx, a believer of the here and now. He is economist and political philosopher; he believes that man makes the religion. He also thinks that religion is the self-consciousness of a self-feeling man who either has not found his inner self, or has lost himself. He feels man is a product of the world. Marx definition of the way of life through a man is empty, unfulfilled, corrupted, and lacks dignity. Marx writes that the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people which is required for their real happiness. Marx feels that religion gives hope to the poor and that the purpose of religion is to create an illusion or a fantasy for the …show more content…
In order to be concerned we must have something to be concerned about and faith is the freedom to choose to believe in something. Tillich argues that doubt is in everyone’s faith and that every act of faith recognizes that they are a possible doubt. (Tillich, 1957) Tillich believes that the truth of faith does not conflict with scientific truth, and that truth of faith cannot be self-confessed or repudiated scientifically. Tillich idea of “religion” is “the substance, the ground and the depth of man’s spiritual life.” Religion or faith is the state of being grasped by the power “being itself” by an “unconditional concern” or by “that which concerns one unconditionally. (Page
Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are two prominent thinkers. Marx and Freud both believe religion is the godparent of the financial and social system. Marx believes that religion is the opiate of the people. This means that religion is like a strong narcotic drug that dulls the senses of pain, and offers comfort to people in suffering. Sigmund Freud believes that religion as a neurosis and its diagnosis in “The Future of an Illusion” (1927). These two thinkers, both rejected religion and thought it to be make-believe.
Karl Marx, a believer of the here and now. He is economist and political philosopher; he believes that man makes the religion. He also thinks that religion is the self-consciousness of a self-feeling man who either has not found his inner self, or has lost himself. He feels man is a product of the world. Marx definition of the way of life through a man is empty, unfulfilled, corrupted, and lacks dignity. Marx writes that the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people which is required for their real happiness. Marx feels that religion gives hope to the poor and that the purpose of religion is to create an illusion or a fantasy for the …show more content…
In order to be concerned we must have something to be concerned about and faith is the freedom to choose to believe in something. Tillich argues that doubt is in everyone’s faith and that every act of faith recognizes that they are a possible doubt. (Tillich, 1957) Tillich believes that the truth of faith does not conflict with scientific truth, and that truth of faith cannot be self-confessed or repudiated scientifically. Tillich idea of “religion” is “the substance, the ground and the depth of man’s spiritual life.” Religion or faith is the state of being grasped by the power “being itself” by an “unconditional concern” or by “that which concerns one unconditionally. (Page