Crossword clues for materialism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Materialism \Ma*te"ri*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. mat['e]rialisme.]
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The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets; called also philosophical materialism.
The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
--Buckminster. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests as contrasted with spiritual concerns; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
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Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.]
--A. Chalmers.philosophical materialism The theory that matter and energy are the only objects existing within the universe, and that mental and spiritual phenomena are explainable as functions of the nervous system of people. Same as materialism[1].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns. 2 (context philosophy English) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical. 3 (context obsolete rare English) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
WordNet
n. a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters [syn: philistinism]
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality [syn: physicalism]
Wikipedia
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
Materialism is closely related to physicalism, the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. Philosophical physicalism has evolved from materialism with the discoveries of the physical sciences to incorporate more sophisticated notions of physicality than mere ordinary matter, such as: spacetime, physical energies and forces, dark matter, and so on. Thus the term "physicalism" is preferred over "materialism" by some, while others use the terms as if they are synonymous.
Philosophies contradictory to materialism or physicalism include idealism, pluralism, dualism, and other forms of monism.
Materialism or materialist may refer to:
- Materialism — the view that the universe consists only of organized matter and energy
- Economic materialism the desire to accumulate material goods
- Christian materialism a branch of Christianity, in which the soul is seen as consisting only of organized matter and energy
- Cultural materialism (anthropology), an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris
- Cultural materialism (cultural studies), a movement in literary theory and cultural studies originating with left-wing literary critic Raymond Williams
- Historical materialism, a theory of socioeconomic development most commonly associated with Marxism, where changes in material conditions (technology and productive capacity) are the primary influences on how human society is organized
- Dialectical materialism, a strand of Marxism which proposes that every economic order develops internal contradictions and weaknesses that contribute to its systemic decay
- Spiritual materialism, a misuse of spiritual practice which seeks to subvert spiritual experiences to inflate the sense of self or egohood (a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa).
Usage examples of "materialism".
Atheism, materialism and agnosticism are an old, old trinity, but they had up to our own time been at the mercy of more positive attitudes through their inability to really answer those insurgent questions: Whence?
Christian theism was more sharply challenged by materialism and agnosticism than by a frankly confessed atheism.
In the two chapters immediately following, VIII and IX, the reader will learn something of the loss of all moral standards and the cruel, lawless violence to which the atheistic, anarchistic materialism of I.
Its attendant phenomena grow colorless, more forced, and one by one they fade away: Equality, Democracy, Happiness, Instability, Commercialism, High Finance and its power of Money, Class War, Trade as an end in itself, Social Atomism, Parliamentarism, Liberalism, Communism, Materialism, Mass-Propaganda.
They have brought in materialism, atheism, class war, weak happiness ideals, race suicide, social atomism, racial promiscuity, decadence in the arts, erotomania, disintegration of the family, private and public dishonor, slatternly feminism, economic fluctuation and catastrophe, civil war in the family of Europe, planned degeneration of the youth through vile films and literature, and through neurotic doctrines in education.
Research was the foundation upon which the Hands of Grace program rested, the armor that would protect it from the brickbats hurled by those who would see in its simple ministry of the heart a threat to their administrative power, the key that would unlock the doors of scientific materialism and allow contemplative musicians unimpeded entry into hospital and hospice alike.
But, leaving aside all such incidental speculations, the chief interest of the dynamic atomistic or monad theory, as affording a solid basis for immortality, is in relation to the arrogance of a shallow and conceited materialism.
But once Dialectical Materialism had described the deterministic process of class struggle and economic evolution, it became obsolete because it cracked open the closed system it described by the very act of describing it.
Mechanical Materialism, or Vulgar Evolutionism, which he considered to constitute a contradiction within the very fabric of the transcendent metaphysical Taoism of the past.
From a plainer perspective, the men and women who worked the market exemplified, without varnish, a pragmatic materialism and even an exemplary work ethic.
Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.
According to scientific materialism, however, phenomena have come to be identified as things, events, or processes that occur regularly under definite circumstances.
Reductionism, like the other tenets of scientific materialism, has guided scientists in shedding light on those types of phenomena that can be best understood by examining their elementary components.
Scientific materialism has served admirably as a metaphysical framework for the scientific investigation of external, physical phenomena, but it has proven inadequate as a framework for the scientific investigation of internal, mental phenomena.
American autopathic tendencies, arising from the disintegratory influence of Rationalism and Materialism, are the source of the possibilities of which the Culture-distorter made use.