These principles = ? (the attack and the advocacy?)

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His first book, published anonymously, Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (1830), contains an attack on personal immortality and an advocacy of the Spinozistic immortality of reabsorption in nature. These principles, combined with his embarrassed manner of public speaking, debarred him from academic advancement. After some years of struggling, during which he published his Geschichte der neueren Philosophie (2 vols., 1833–1837, 2nd ed. 1844), and Abelard und Heloise (1834, 3rd ed. 1877), he married in 1837 and lived a rural existence at Bruckberg near Nuremberg, supported by his wife's share in a small porcelain factory.

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@oristarA,

Principles are moral or ethical beliefs which govern a person's behaviour. The word is wrongly used here. Beware of assuming that Wikipedia is correct, whether in point of fact or grammar! Many of its articles are very poorly written. I imagine that the "principles" the Wikipedia author is thinking of are the beliefs that Fuerbach held which caused him to write what he did in his first book.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

Principles are moral or ethical beliefs which govern a person's behaviour. The word is wrongly used here. Beware of assuming that Wikipedia is correct, whether in point of fact or grammar! Many of its articles are very poorly written. I imagine that the "principles" the Wikipedia author is thinking of are the beliefs that Fuerbach held which caused him to write what he did in his first book.

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