Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classic German Philosophy

In Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classic German Philosophy Engels argues that Hegel’s idealist, conservative system must be distinguished from his materialist, revolutionary method of dialectics and that Feuerbach had turned to law against Hegel’s idealistic system and “the fundamental question of philosophy”: i.e., the relation of thinking and being. Additionally, Feuerbach rejected Hegel’s dialectical method, which is why his view of man and nature remained abstract and ahistorical. Accordingly, Karl Marx only kept the “rational” substance of the dialectical method and freed it from Hegel and Feuerbach’s idealistic form.