Article: The matter of materialism.(Letters)(Letter to the ...
The Humanist;  January 1, 2009 ;     453 words ... ... Communism and, for some reason, materialism were suspiciously associated with the ... the U.S. economy would be without materialism.)" It's a common misuse of the ... ownership of things. In its correct usage, materialism refers to the idea that nothing exists ...

Article: The new materialism: a matter of policy.
World Watch;  September 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... become waste and we're compelled to get rid of them. Unfortunately, the environmental costs of materials are not just a matter of waste. Groundwater pollution from landfills or toxic incinerator emissions are actually a relatively small part of the problem ...

Article: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas;      700+ words ... ... material substances. Materialism may be either a metaphysical ... principle — matter and its properties ... eighteenth century, materialism developed into a philosophy ... Eighteenth-century materialism in a sense is an extension ... a worldview in which matter and the natural laws ...

Article: Materialism, Dialectical
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ... ... perception he advanced in Materialism and Empirio-Criticism ... x2019; s account, since materialism to Engels was not the same ... s] medley of metaphysical materialism and Hegelian dialectics ... speaking dependent on it. Matter as an absolute substance ...

Dictionary definition: materialism
A Dictionary of Sociology;      700+ words ... ... promulgation of materialism as a modern world ... classical times matter had been opposed ... sophisticated account of matter itself, as made ... title dialectical materialism . The third meaning ... x2018;historical materialism’, is ... Partly this is a matter of the ...

Article: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas;      700+ words ... ... with a mechanistic materialism of matter-in-motion, and ... character of historical materialism derives from its narrative ... change within it. Matter-in-motion does ... presumption. Rather the materialism operative in the doctrine ...

Article: Five dangers of materialism.(mind-body problem)
Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... naturalism of Thomas Hobbes, materialism has become the most ... are sundry forms of materialism, yet not even materialists ... that nothing exists but matter in motion. Any reference ... term non-reductive materialism is itself an oxymoron: Substance is reducible matter. While non-reductive ...