ALIENATION

ALIENATION
   an English word originating in the fourteen century to describe an action of estranging or state of estrangement.
   In modern usage it means
   1) a cutting-off or being cut off from GOD;
   2) a breakdown of relations between a person or a GROUP; (3) the action of transferring the ownership of anything to another;
   4) loss of connection with one's own deepest feelings and needs. HEGEL and MARX argued that what is alienated is an essential part of human nature and that the process of alienation must be seen historically. FEUERBACH described God as the product of human alienation in the sense of His being a projection of the highest human ATTRIBUTES from people to a divine BEING. Marx said man creates himself by creating his world, but in class-society is alienated from his essential NATURE.

Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.

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