PHL317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Omnipotence, Cherry Picking, Human Nature
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Religion, at least the christian, is the relation of man to himself, or more correctly to his own nature (i. e. , his subjective nature); but a relation to it, viewed as a nature apart from his own. The divine being is nothing else than the human being, or, rather the human nature purified, freed from the limits of the individual man, made objective i. e. , contemplated and revered as another, a distinct being. All the attributes of the divine nature are, therefore, attributes of the human nature. This is not a distinction that tracks anything. The christian religion is a relation of man to himself. There is a god, but he is human. What we believe of religion is true of humans, not of supernatural human beings. 33: man first of all sees his nature as if out of himself, before he finds it in himself. His own nature is in the first instance contemplated by him as that of another being.
