Marx's "Humanized Nature"on the Critical Transcendence of Feuerbach's "Nature in Itself"
By subverting and disintegrating the idealist establishment,Feuerbach destroyed the mysterious foundation of German metaphysics and restored philosophy from the super-perceptual heaven to the perceptual reality. He took the intuitive nature and man as the starting point of"future philosophy"and constructed a kind of humanism based on naturalism. However,in Marx's view,although this conception of Feuerbach's philosophy restored the ontological significance of perceptual nature,it reduced man to an unrealistic abstract object:on the one hand,nature in the intuition is only in the state of existence in itself in opposition to man;On the other hand,man in"nature in itself"has only pure dependence on nature. In a word,nature and man were essentially separated and loose the inner identity of each other. On the basis of critical intuitive philosophy paradigm,Marx regarded nature as"humanized nature"which was closely related to the real man,and revealed its three inner conditions embodied in the perceptual activities of man. Accordingly,Marx realized the critical transcendence of Feuerbach's"nature in itself".
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