A Critical Study of Feuerbach and Karl Marx on the Causes of Human Self-Alienation

Feuerbach and Karl Marx are known among leftist Hegelians and materialist philosophers that studied self-alienation and its causes after Hegel. Feuerbach believes that human being, projecting his/her perfections, has made God and religion and, submitting before Him, has been self-alienated. And Karl Marx has attributed self-alienation to private ownership at first and then to religion. As viewed by the philosophers, human being may be rescued from self-alienation only in the case of leaving religion. As viewed in the paper, however, the philosophers` material vision on the universe may be regarded as their main obstacle to view correctly, their view is exposed to various objections in two fields of theory and content and finally what called by them as alienation may be counted as an agent of self-awareness and self-perceiving.