All 22 Uses
materialistic
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- Since he believed in nothing but material things, we call him a materialist.†
Chpt 5 *
- He was a materialist.†
Chpt 6
- The opposite viewpoint is called materialism.†
Chpt 17
- Materialism also had many advocates in the seventeenth century.†
Chpt 17
- Both idealism and materialism are themes you will find all through the history of philosophy.†
Chpt 17
- Materialism was constantly nourished by the new sciences.†
Chpt 17
- But this was not the case for all eighteenth— and nineteenth-century materialists.†
Chpt 17
- German materialists in the nineteenth century claimed that the relationship of thought to the brain was like the relationship of urine to the kidneys and gall to the liver.†
Chpt 17
- As regards extended reality, he takes a thoroughly mechanistic view—exactly like the materialists.†
Chpt 18
- He felt that current philosophies and science were a threat to the Christian way of life, that the all-pervading materialism, not least, represented a threat to the Christian faith in God as creator and preserver of all nature.†
Chpt 22
- At the time there were a lot of confirmed materialists who did not believe in a God, and who professed to atheism.†
Chpt 23
- You probably remember that Democritus and the materialists said that nature must consist of minimal parts that everything is made up of.†
Chpt 24
- Aristotle had a more organic view of natural processes than the mechanical materialists ....†
Chpt 25
- About the same time, Marx had written a doctoral thesis on Democritus and Epicurus—in other words, on the materialism of antiquity.†
Chpt 28
- Because Kierkegaard became an existentialist and Marx became a materialist?†
Chpt 28
- Marx became what is known as a historical materialist.†
Chpt 28
- You said he was a historical materialist?†
Chpt 28
- He was not a philosophical materialist like the atomists of antiquity nor did he advocate the mechanical materialism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.†
Chpt 28
- He was not a philosophical materialist like the atomists of antiquity nor did he advocate the mechanical materialism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.†
Chpt 28
- If Marx had rejected this interaction, he would have been a mechanical materialist.†
Chpt 28
- But because Marx realized that there was an interactive or dialectic relation between bases and superstructure, we say that he is a dialectical materialist.†
Chpt 28
- We should just mention a final current, materialism, which also has historical roots.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(materialistic) overly concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, in philosophy, materialistic can refer to the belief that everything, including our thoughts, are caused by physical effects over which we have no control.