V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

FROM THE “PHILOSOPHY NOTEBOOKS”

Under the heading: “Philosophical Principles of Physical Chemistry”. (Perrin analyses the concepts of force, etc., energy, etc., energy, etc.—against regarding “energy as a mysterious entity” (p. 401)... Abel Rey calls Perrin an opponent of “neo-sceptical systems”.)

Written in December 1914.
First published in 1930
in the Lenin Miscellany XII

Printed from the manuscript

PETAR GENOV. “THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
AND METAPHYSICS OF FEUERBACH”
ZURICH. 1911 (BERN DISSERTATION) (89 pp.)
Landesbibliothek

This, purely scholastic, work consists almost exclusively of quotations from Feuerbach’s writings according to Jodl’s edition*. It can be useful only as a collection of quotations, and even then not a complete one.
The subject is far from being worked out by the author.

The author quotes mainly Volume II, especially “Thesen” and “Grundsätze”, then “Wider den Dualismus”.
X, especially “Über Spiritualismus und Materialismus” 192.
NB VIII, “Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion”* (Feuerbach himself wrote in 1848 that this was a more mature work of his than “The Essence of Christianity”, published in 1841*.) VIII, pp. 26, 29; 102-109; 288; 329 and others*.
VII. “Das Wesen der Religion”** (1845: Feuerbach considers it important).

* — “Lectures on the Essence of Religion” (see present volume, pp. 41-64). Ed.
** — “The Essence of Religion”. Ed.

IV. “Leibniz”* with notes of 1847.
(NB) IV. pp. 261; 197; 190-191; 274.
VII. Additions to “Wesen des Christentums”**.

The author quotes (in the spirit of Feuerbach):
Ebbinghaus. “Experimentelle Psychologie”, pp. 110 and 45.
F. Jodl. “Lehrbuch der Psychologie”, p. 403.
A. Forel. “Gehirn und Seele”, X. Auflage, p. 14***.
Lange (II. Buch, p. 104) is clearly wrong (pp. 83 and 88) in opposing Feuerbach, distorting (and denying) Feuerbach’s materialism 193.

At the beginning the author gives an outline of Feuerbach’s philosophical development— “Todesgedanken”**** (1830)—still a Hegelian; “Der Schriftsteller und der Mensch”***** (1834)******—beginning of the break; “Kritik des Antihegel”******* (1835)—against the enemies of Hegel, but not for Hegel (cf. de Grun, Bd. I, 390 and 398; II, 409 194). — “Critique of Hegelian Philosophy” (1839). — “The Essence of Christianity” (1841)—the break— “Theses” and “Principles of the Philosophy of the Future” (1842 and 1843). — “The Essence of Religion” (1845). — “Lectures on the Essence of Religion” (1847).

Written December 16-17 (29-30), 1914.
First published in 1930
in the Lenin Miscellany XII

Printed from the manuscript

* — “Leibniz” (see present volume, pp. 65-76). Ed.
** — “Additions to The Essence of Christianity”. Ed.
*** — Ebbinghaus. “Experimental Psychology”, pp. 110 and 45; F. Jodl. “Textbook of Psychology”, p. 403; A. Forel. “Brain and Soul”, X edition, p. 14. Ed.
**** — “Thoughts on Death”. Ed.
***** — “The Writer and the Man”. Ed.
****** Here the author was “not a pantheist, but a polytheist” (p. 15); “more a Leibnizian than a Hegelian” (p. 15).
******* — “Critique of Anti-Hegel”. Ed.