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Sentence Examples This can be seen as an early version of the Marxist dynamic of dialectical materialism. In the early 1950s, the Massey commissioners noted that universities remained islets of civilization awash in a growing sea of materialism. It was this fusion of materialism and altruism, Mammon and God, which allowed improvement to become the leitmotiv of Georgian Britain. It must be said however, that materialism as a philosophy is largely developing through science, while idealism is sort of married to religion. The '90s brought a slow drift from the arms of the Church, as secular materialism took hold. Just about any religion or spiritual movement will tell you that physical materialism is not the ultimate solution. It is the law itself which encodes the values of individualism and materialism. Consumerism and materialism won't fill the spiritual emptiness so many in an affluent society experience. Perceptions now abound of the West being held in the grip of materialism and spiritual values being sidelined. As an attitude, romanticism can be described as a tendency to favour the spiritual and oppose materialism. The truth is that all of the varieties of skepticism, materialism, and spiritual fervor are found in the range of tribal societies. We are losing the battle because we live in a culture that nurtures us on materialism and promotes greed as a virtue. Consumerist creature comfort materialism using non-renewable resources is a short-cut to ruin. In fact, he argued that the modem worship of technology and materialism undermined these values. Are there any others out there ready to give up the creature comforts of materialism and strike back for the working class? In light of the complexity of the universe, which of the overarching theories of materialism, humanism, or theism provides the best explanation? The first is ontological materialism, which says that nothing exists except the material world. The field is dominated by schools of materialism that describe mental phenomena as types or side products of physical phenomena. And, if we don't really know what matter is, then materialism is in trouble. Hobbes' view shows progress for reconciling materialism, determinism and free will, but it is unsatisfactory. Show More Sentences In respect to his materialism and determinism Collins was clearly influenced more by Hobbes and Bayle than he was by Locke. The second abandons hope for reductionist exploitation of behaviorist ideas on behalf of materialism. As Marx pointed out, idealism often was better than materialism at capturing agency. It demands an approach that is the negation of purely mechanistic materialism. Allen particularly drew attention to the mechanistic materialism that underlay these conceptions. Vitalism is opposed to mechanistic materialism and its thesis that life emerges from a complex combination of organic matter. Too often, Christmas seems to celebrate materialism and self-gratification. What we are getting in their place are naked selfishness, unbridled materialism and marginalisation of compassion. For some, Christmas is an oppressive reminder that mercantilism and materialism have replaced Christ as the heart of Christmas. Einstein heralds the end of the era of Newtonian physics, whose concomitant working metaphysic was materialism. The school of materialism called the Charvaka did not believe in the cycle of rebirth and transmigration. Decades of dry and barren materialism have left us feeling short-changed and cheated. For many, scientific materialism is not a bloodless philosophy but a passionately held ideology. The juxtaposition of materialism and spirituality does reveal an unregenerate society blind to the true meaning of the church rituals. It has something to do with arrogance and materialism and the deadening effect of pop culture on the collective brainpan. The superpower of the ancient world was influenced both by God and by the demons of materialism, violence, self-love, fraud, and usury. He made a lasting contribution to moral and political philosophy by attacking the prevailing materialism and empiricism of utilitarian thinkers. Present-day materialism, he wrote, is a Spinozism that has become more or less aware of itself. New Age materialism seemed an ugly form of self-serving notions to justify greed and the refusal of compassion. This is what threatens materialism, since according to that doctrine, every fact about every human mind is ultimately a public, objective fact. Show More Sentences I mean I put up with your materialism, superficiality, and egotism on a daily basis without biting your head off. What is the value of a vitalist materialism compared to say Adorno's materialist ontology? The attempts to free academia and research funds from the stranglehold of methodological materialism can only help the creationist movement. Is this evidence, at bottom, of an irresolvable clash between capitalistic materialism and religious, other-worldly values? Interesting, but can Stoppard always have been so ignorant as to have thought that socialism was synonymous with historical materialism? Perhaps more than the other animisms, historical materialism is based on a total confusion of the categories of value and knowledge. What this sad old song reveals about Mr. Daniels is his failure to truly have embraced historical materialism. One notable example of non-Marxist historical materialism is Hannah Arendt's The Origins Of Totalitarianism. Marx has applied his theory of historical materialism to capitalist society in both The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, among others. So there we are, Kamm's tortoise is belly up and, for what its worth, only historical materialism can stand it back on its feet. In his programmatic pronouncements about historical materialism, Marx does not specifically mention science in the superstructure. In that same year Arturo Labriola published his most important work on historical materialism. The idea of a propaganda department is basically against the historical materialism of Karl Marx. The working class uprisings against Stalinism did not refute historical materialism. This is at heart a study of labor relations in the production of coffee, through the framework of historical materialism. In our opinion this theme could provide the subject matter for the most fruitful work of our Marxist seminars on historical materialism. He indicates, for example, that his own method of interpretation is that of historical materialism. Some forms of materialism argue that the mental phenomena in question do not even exist. Atheism, skepticism, polytheism, materialism, pantheism, and impersonalism are by their nature contrary to love. Typically, Johnson would have no time for the philosophical materialism or cosmogonical speculation of Epicurus, Lucretius, and their followers. Show More Sentences Alongside the criticisms of fraternizers and materialism existed a strong admiration for U.S. efforts to alleviate German deprivation. One of the dangers in our western society is that we replace people with materialism. We have to abandon the enormous deadweight of the materialism of the Western tradition, and turn to a more planetary way of thinking. Even the primal urge for physical activity succumbs to superficiality and materialism in the end. That is a valid deductive argument against materialism, and its premises are hard to deny. In the middle of nineteenth century Karl Marx propounded the theory of historical and dialectical materialism. The Punic power fell, because there is in this materialism a mad indifference to real thought. Gray describes it as a legitimate successor to that other secular utopian project, the Marxist version of dialectical materialism. Those who disdain wealth as crass materialism need to understand that wealth is one of the biggest life-saving factors in the world. What he wished to avoid was a materialism that saw mental states as only epiphenomena, and an idealism not open to scientific investigation. Why is Johnson able to discuss the philosophical materialism of the Epicureans here with such dispassion and even, dare one say, good humor? As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism. They probably all drive People Carriers and conversation is solely about one-upmanship, acquisitive materialism and diets. He sees an increasing number of Saudis who are whipsawed between a new materialism and traditional values. This story teaches important lessons about materialism and valuing family relationships. He would be aghast at the spread of materialism and greed, and angry at our indifference to poverty and deprivation. Only their fall and burial in the compost pile of materialism remains for recitation. But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. The task of historical materialism in Russia is not to refute the enemy but to destroy him! Most atheists and other advocates of philosophical naturalism also believe in materialism, the idea that everything that actually exists is material or physical. Show More Sentences And materialism is as much the enemy of art as abstractionism. In his latest book Smith argues that science, along with its attendant philosophies of naturalism and materialism, has systematically eclipsed this big picture. Exposed as it is to the acid test of consumerism, subjected as it is to the excesses of materialism, the citadel of culture seems to be crumbling fast. How new are cultural materialism and new historicism, for instance? Perhaps, then, I could put in a word for historical materialism? The most common opposing view has been materialism or physicalism, a philosophical position maintaining that everything, including mind, is essentially physical. Rolling in wealth, the Church built great edifices and fielded its own armies and sank deeper and deeper into immorality, materialism, and decadence. It is also historical materialism, which far predated postmodernism in understanding that human affairs were matters of cutting, pasting, and recombining. In Australian materialism space triumphs over concrete place. Bekhterev's reflexology had pretensions to explain social phenomena, and could thus be denounced as a heretical challenger to historical materialism. Issues raised include the mind-body relation, materialism and dualism, the Cartesian view of matter, and the relations between religious beliefs and parapsychology. Resist the easy comforts of complacency, the specious glitter of materialism, the narcotic paralysis of self-satisfaction. In addition, for reformers, the focus on the Eucharist as a physical rather than spiritual restorative led to an attack on the materialism of transformation. Narcissism and materialism were both drawn in sharp contrast to nihilism, but in the end the important thing was not to march in lockstep to the beat of any drummer. Denial of any purpose and order is current in atheism and materialism. And while this play deals, like all his work, with the conflict between the poetic soul and materialism, I feel Williams sanctifies the dead Sebastian. In sum, scientific atheism was not a science or even a social science but a Marxist-inspired faith in the moral superiority of belief in historical materialism. Fifteen or 20 years ago I could protect my children from the excesses of consumerism and materialism by schooling them at home and putting the TV in the closet. In this maelstrom, in which the migrant soul had no way to learn or value nature, the only groundings were those of wealth, materialism, humanism, violence and conquest. His essential concern is that rampant materialism, unhindered by any generally accepted ethical proscription, will degrade the natural environment. Show More Sentences According to Sorokin, the sensate society that we know today is moving towards inevitable collapse and this is connected with the successes of science and materialism. It could aid in neutralizing the insidious and pernicious tendencies towards materialism, consumerism and a general preoccupation with the present and the secular. The struggle to hold on to traditional values in the face of the new South African politics and western materialism forms an important theme in his writings. This disappearance of objective knowledge in Western philosophy has continued in other idealist and subjective guises-positivism, materialism, psychologism and historicism. Their Marxism has been shorn of even the most basic understanding of historical materialism, of the progress of and changes to societies throughout the ages. What needs editing is not Darwinian biology but evolutionist materialism. But some readings of Marx's materialism have been somewhat overzealous. What happens to the quality of our lives when we value materialism? His works present a critique of Victorian materialism yet also convey spiritual consolation, faith in humanity and in the power and goodness of great men. Here all the base materialism purged by the Islamists could upchuck ebulliently like a Disneyland-lit confetti-bomb blitz. I'll admit I was a victim to superficialness and materialism but unlike most people I'm making an effort to change my lifestyle and it's a slow but progressing process. It will measure the extent to which young people identify with democratic values, materialism, solidarity, and confidence in their own and the country's prospects. Historically the main spur to Marxists seeking such an alternative to the reductionist and the scientistic conception of dialectical materialism came from Max Weber. It just feeds the fire of materialism, and feeds the fire of make up, and false attire, and whatnot. A Youtube video of some jet-setting Buddhist monks has Thailand scrambling to crack down on materialism in the monastic ranks. It seems the world of law and idol breaking needed something of the Greeks' materialism, too. Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes wrote on empiricism and materialism, including scientific method and social contract. Thus materialism has no definite content independent of the particular theory of matter on which it is based. It is an empirical hypothesis that is subject to revision and, hence, lacks the dogmatic stance of classical materialism. An argument for idealism, such as those of Hegel and Berkeley, is ipso facto an argument against materialism. Show More Sentences The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. One of his main objectives was to combat the prevailing materialism of his time. In German Ideology, Marx and Engels finally completed their philosophy, which was based solely on materialism as the sole motor force in history. Karl Marx introduced the concept of historical materialism into the study of world historical development. Towards the middle of the 20th century historical materialism gained much popularity in Norwegian historiography. What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism. Coleridge is often seen as pitting a vitalist theory of nature against the mechanical materialism of the Enlightenment. For them, God is still in heaven, and we his sinful children are still whoring after the twin idols of modernity and materialism. Perhaps some dismiss them as preeners and kings of bling on fat, fat contracts, more interested in materialism than the game. How could South Sudanese move forward in this tribalistic Leadership characterized by primitiveness, nepotism and political materialism? But Hulme evidently saw such a project as inexorably issuing in the immanentism and materialism of the late Victorian age. Some have speculated that Morcom's death was the cause of Turing's atheism and materialism. Philosophies contradictory to materialism or physicalism include idealism, pluralism, dualism, and other forms of monism. For singular explanations of the phenomenal reality, materialism would be in contrast to idealism, neutral monism, and spiritualism. However, by itself materialism says nothing about how material substance should be characterized. From the start, conservative and clerical defenders of traditional religion attacked materialism and skepticism as evil forces that encouraged immorality. When they publicly bet a large sum on their favorite horse, it told the world that competitiveness, individualism, and materialism where the core elements of gentry values. Mary Crawford, while possessing some good qualities and having much charm and vivacity is ultimately doomed by her superficiality, materialism and an inability to change. Marvin Harris, a contemporary of Douglas, put forward the theory of cultural materialism, saying that all aspects of society have material causes. This reductive materialism is evident everywhere, with many believing that their own thoughts are the product of what was once the activity of blind material forces. Show More Sentences Later Marxists, such as Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky developed the notion of dialectical materialism which characterized later Marxist philosophy and method. Historiography in the Soviet Union was greatly influenced by Marxist historiography, as historical materialism was extended into the Soviet version of dialectical materialism. He is disturbed not by the crass materialism of his life but by the fact that he is still driving a Ford when he could and should be driving a Porsche. In such a context one can conflate materialism with atheism. He stressed historical materialism in particular, assigning it a character of scientific discovery and a doctrine, indeed forming Marxism as such. Against Marx's historical materialism, Weber emphasised the importance of cultural influences embedded in religion as a means for understanding the genesis of capitalism. Lennon shows how Yeats's engagement with Oriental mysticism and symbolism locks onto both Celticist and anticolonial critiques of modern materialism. In collaboration with Engels, Marx also set about writing a book which is often seen as his best treatment of the concept of historical materialism, The German Ideology. But the philosophical analysis that concludes that we must choose between materialism and some form of vitalism is based on a limited understanding of the options. Examples from Classical Literature Esoterically understood, his novel teaches a doctrine of mysticism, intuitionalism, and materialism combined. The criticism we have to apply to materialism is not the same as that just summarised. Rosmini, in an elaborate criticism, complains that Stewart did not perceive the inevitable tendency of nominalism to materialism. On the other hand, it is of the essence of materialism to deny that the Will is an agent. The denial of universal ideas is rationalism and materialism in philosophy, as it is Pelagianism and Arminianism in theology. Mechanism as to motion, atomism as to structure, materialism as to substance, that is the whole system of Democritus. Fourierism was too bald a materialism to suit the higher classes of its disciples, without a religion corresponding. He might have escaped this materialism through the church, but to him it offered no inducements. The most notable portion of this work is the preface, which contains the first statement of the theory of historical materialism. Granted the truth of historical materialism, how will future generations look on the literature of to-day and yesterday? By its core, historical materialism, it gains a wholly new theory of social evolution that forms its chief content. There will soon be no babies for you to instruct either in materialism or socialism. This book is indispensable to an understanding of the theoretical origin of historical materialism. Liberate their conscience from the materialism by which it is weighed down. Labriola, moreover, has a special merit, which marks him off from the ordinary exponents and adapters of historical materialism. Razumov envied the materialism of the thief and the passion of the incorrigible lover. But inasmuch as the notion of metaphysics itself seems to exclude materialism, the vital alternative is that of immaterialism. It is idle, then, to sneer at 'medical materialism,' and stigmatise it as superficial. To deny the innateness of ideas was roundly asserted to be materialism and atheism. Fortysomethings seek the youthful joy materialism and the soul-killing work that supports it have squelched. Show More Sentences Thus our philosophy forms the theoretical basis of historical materialism. How can historical materialism justify itself scientifically? Here we come upon the issue between materialism and immaterialism. Let us study the exact point on which parallelism has amended materialism. What I did find was monstrous selfishness and heartlessness, and a gross, gluttonous, practised, and practical materialism. The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism. It was an elemental materialism, difficult to understand, but it was a language very clear to Martin. Find more words! 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