materialism
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- noun
- /məˈtɪəriəlɪzəm/
- Specialized
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materialismo
- In modern discussions, materialism is often contrasted with idealism in how we understand existence.
- dialectical materialism
- historical materialism
- scientific materialism
Instead, he endorses A thorough going materialism that centers upon the body.
- Instead, he endorses A thorough going materialism that centers upon the body.
- And we have been focused by science, which is called scientific materialism for a reason.
- So Stoicism teaches a different understanding of materialism, as John Cock is going to talk about.
- So if you think about where did this religion or mythos of materialism come from and is it scientific?
- There's a dialectic going on that's very, very far to your point from radical materialism or biological reductionism.
- So, so, so panpsychism is more successful in this expansion project than materialism and more parsimonious than dualism.
- I think we should stop this old fashioned materialism and just equate who we are with our quarks and electrons.
- I'm at least an agnostic atheist, I mean, but there are mysteries like consciousness which do just make me wonder how on earth materialism could be true.
- Have premises of materialism or theism associated with him.
- Dialectical materialism, anti-Semitism, Nazism could spellbind and hypnotize mankind.
Examples
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Now materialism is the view that matter and energy, the material world, the material universe, is all there is.
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An important principle of dialectical materialism is that both consciousness and conscious human action are socially determined.
Academic text (1992) -
And we have been focused by science, which is called scientific materialism for a reason.
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Rather than trying to make a direct case for materialism, an undertaking far beyond the scope of this article,
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Historically, too, the differences between materialism and idealism come to little more than this.
Academic text (2017) -
Instead, he endorses A thorough going materialism that centers upon the body.
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The two pillars of this worldview are materialism and mental dualism.
Academic text (1991) -
The very existence of the materialistic theorist is evidence that theoretical materialism is not completely true.
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Philosophical debates often center around materialism, arguing whether reality is solely based on physical matter.
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Many scientists embrace materialism as it posits that all phenomena can be explained through physical interactions.
Synonyms
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A view that only matter and its properties exist
Antonyms
- Specialized
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Reality exists because of the mind and ideas, not independent physical things
Compounds
- Formal
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A way of thinking that says society changes because people fight over the things they need
How Materialist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Materialism comes from matter and material ('physical things') plus the ending -ism ('belief' or 'theory'). So in philosophy it means the belief that only physical matter is real and that mind and thought come from material things.