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...theological studies to become a student of philosophy under G.W.F. Hegel for two years at Berlin. In 1828 he went to Erlangen to study natural science, and two years later his first book, Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (“Thoughts on Death and Immortality”), was published anonymously. In this work Feuerbach attacked the concept of personal immortality and...
Shortly before Hegel’s death, the youthful Ludwig Feuerbach, who later became a pioneer of naturalistic humanism, had published his Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (1830; “Thoughts on Death and Immortality”), in which he contended that, from the Hegelian point of view, death must be necessary in order for man to be transformed from the finite to the infinite and it...
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