| 单词 | materialist |
| 例句 | You do not, I would add, need to be an historical materialist to see that historians need to think about change, development, origins. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes, although he was not an atomist, had developed a materialist, Epicurean philosophy which was universally understood to be hostile to religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In one of his notebooks he wrote, “Oh you materialist!” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But we have no documents from the Natufian culture, so when dealing with ancient periods the materialist school reigns supreme. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were thoroughgoing materialists, not in prizing possessions but in holding that matter alone provided the underpinnings of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I am, for example, a materialist largely because I was brought up to believe in the central mystery of the Church—the redemptive Incarnation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We use the word ‘Epicurean’ to mean someone who seeks physical pleasure but, in the Renaissance, Epicureans were materialists and atheists and consequently unable to acknowledge any good other than physical pleasure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Gibson is a radically materialist writer; a central tenet of his work is, as he wrote in Wired in 2001, that “all cultural change is essentially technologically driven.” William Gibson’s Man-Made Future 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z I am a hard-core materialist more than a spiritualist, if you are putting me on the continuum. Possessed: Amy Cappellazzo of Christie?s Keeps a Quartz Crystal 2012-04-13T17:55:48Z That essay framed a landmark challenge to the materialist view of the mind that was then prevailing and helped cement Mr. Nagel’s reputation as one of the most incisive and imaginative of contemporary philosophers. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z In portraying Richard almost satirically as a generic materialist, shopping at Whole Foods and worrying about property values, does he mean to propose that he is enacting a new stereotype? Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z Together with the hallucinogenic qualities of anesthetic drugs and the effects of oxygen depletion on the brain, science is getting close to a materialist explanation of near-death experiences. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z Fluent in several languages, Carlos moved easily across Europe and the Middle East, dressing well and enjoying a glamorous lifestyle that was ironically in tune with the materialist values of the era. Epic French film treats "Carlos the Jackal" at Cannes 2010-05-20T18:29:00Z Despite its relative obscurity, it remains a minor Proustian masterpiece, wherein the child’s lonely world of objects is lovingly chronicled, culminating in a tyke-sized version of the Arcades Project’s urban materialist study. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z “A materialist like myself believes that the physical world consists of nothing but atoms and molecules and nothing more,” Lightman says. The physicist's life-changing revelation about religion 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z After falling hard into her constructed selfhood, spending five years in “this endless cycle of consumption”, then wandering off into the digital wilderness for four years, it seems O’Neill has become a materialist. From sponsors to socialism: the return of Instagram star Essena O'Neill 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z In French and Dutch periodicals, scandalized opponents breathlessly covered these developments, quick to denounce atheists and materialists. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Lucretius was an Epicurean and a stone-cold materialist whose influence steered philosophy and science away from religion. Thomas Browne, 17th-Century Author, Draws New Interest 2012-08-07T12:00:00Z In the same way materialists claim we’re nothing but our bodies, it’s possible to wonder whether a prose style is anything more than words. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z What viewers might find uncomfortable is not just the grotesque nature of materialist impulses, but rather that those same impulses are very much at play in their own lives. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He locates himself on what might be called the materialist left, in which economic power and class interests are the key social drivers. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Bodies were reduced to mere lumbering robots, and even the inner lives of our species became just one more consequence of natural selection in a materialist world. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In that sense, the simulation argument is a thoughtful and expansive materialist fable that is almost, but not quite, religious. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z “It was also an ingenious way to articulate subjective experience in an increasingly materialist modern world.” Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z It was also an ingenious way to articulate subjective experience in an increasingly materialist modern world. The Unstable Artist Who Helped Invent Expressionism 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z He too aimed to use the power of science to achieve the impossible – a materialist version of the earthly paradise promised in early Christianity. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z But being “of the left” is not a purely materialist position. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z A few years later, the Puerto Rican salsero Tony Vega covered it, indulging in all the materialist trappings of 1980s “salsa sensual,” yet still resonating with locals, losing nothing in the cross-Caribbean translation. The Soaring Legacy of Pablo Milanés 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z SO how did a former stop on a low-budget hippie trail become a magnet for Seventh Avenue materialists? Tulum, Mexico Is a Hot Spot for Fashion Insiders 2012-01-21T11:00:07Z If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy. "And Just Like That," Steve offers a chance at renewal – but did he have to be so mean about it? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Here, there is a wickedly amusing cultural clash between rich suburban New Jersey materialists and the Brooklyn bohemian-bourgeoisie, a narcissism of small differences that is reminiscent of Yasmina Reza’s play “God of Carnage.” Review: In ‘The Slap,’ Culture Clash and Family Dysfunction 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Mr Mishra associates liberalism with what he describes, in a related essay in the Guardian, as a “mechanistic and materialist way of conceiving human actions”, partly a consequence of the primacy of free-market economics. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z No prizes for guessing that these are critics of his ultra-Darwinian take on evolutionary mechanisms, and those who are troubled by the "problem" of reconciling conscious experience and free will with a materialist ontology. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z She is a more of a materialist, determined to capture how the world looks, how it feels and, at a granular level of detail, how it works. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In a way, racism is a materialist or physical passion: the problem and the solution are concrete. Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z It’s an animated version of a Khmer folk-parable preaching the limitations of materialist ambition. New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But if Eilish is the future of pop, as some have predicted, it is because pop is a changed sector, one that is ready to abandon materialist concerns and attend to existential ones. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z What it says about the owner Split personality alert: materialist playboy on the surface; sinister hidden depths. Houses of superheroes 2011-07-22T23:06:35Z In a reasonable description of contemporary art, the show’s news release states that widespread digitization and “the canonization of poststudio practices” are creating “a materialist counterculture.” Review: In ‘A Rare Earth Magnet’ at Derek Eller, a Focus on Repurposed Materials 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Along with an increasing number of scientists, I argue that science should not be equated with materialist metaphysics. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z In Warhol’s first-ever statement on his Pop Art, he talked about how it presented “the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialist objects on which America is built today.” Think You Know Andy Warhol? Here Are Five Truths That May Surprise 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z His final conversion, after being a fervent materialist for some years, was to Eastern mysticism. Ray Billington obituary 2012-09-28T10:06:57Z Shapiro’s vision of materialist America is brutally honest, complex, and self-contradictory. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Why would you feel that your book is ugly, when you’re so patently disgusted with the narrator’s materialist obsessions? This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The politics of Ross’s film, though scattershot and rhetorical, are near-radical, and a radical aesthetic looms beneath the movie’s surface as well, whether a theatrical, Brechtian strain of teaching cinema or an extreme materialist historicism. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Generations of authors have lived out the poet's role that Wordsworth created, in life and poem, withdrawing from industrialized society and rejecting its materialist values. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z He meant the order of Victorians, Calvinists and Hebraists who emphasized conduct, duty and strictness of conscience over romantic and materialist rebellions, dialectical and otherwise. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “I am not my body,” she roars at her husband, a Marxist materialist professor. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Pullman, who describes himself as a “thoroughgoing materialist,” provides a counterpoint to authors like Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, believers who infused their children’s fiction with Christian themes. Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Still, he said, “I think it’s a great avenue of approach because so many people share that materialist belief system and ethos with him that it opens their minds to exploring nonordinary states of consciousness.” Hamilton Morris?s Web Series ?Hamilton?s Pharmacopeia? 2012-02-12T07:47:21Z Dugin sees America, Europe and the UK as basically agents of this decadent, Western, materialist, individualist, atomizing culture, "the me culture." Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z In the US, the swimming pool is the ultimate materialist dream. Clip joint: swimming pools 2010-09-08T15:58:00Z It is an irony of materialist theories that such efforts to sidestep ghostly or supernatural accounts of the mind often veer into surreal, metaphysical territory. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s a nice house by most standards, but a dump in the view of Rush’s materialist children. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists. Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The materialist's view of the world is a prison because it's a world created by limited perceptions. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z When successful journalist and materialist Sathnam Sanghera was 24 he discovered his father and sister were both suffering from a severe mental illness he hadn't been aware of. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z “For a materialist,” Lightman writes, “death is the name that we give to a collection of atoms that once had the special arrangement of a functioning neuronal network and now no longer does so.” Must Science Conflict With Spirituality? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z She is a shopaholic striver with a mountain of credit-card debt, a profligate clotheshorse who, the viewer assumes, cares more about materialist trends than timeless art. Fran Drescher in “The Nanny” Is the Fashion Look This Fall 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Of course I'm still a materialist at heart. Rod Stewart: 'I've been a golden boy for too long' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-10-09T14:59:37Z For now, KL’s thinkers and writers forge their own, somewhat lonely paths in a materialist city that is not hospitable to activities other than making — and spending — money. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z A "materialist" who is capable of conversing for seven hours about the "nature of the deity" might serve as a good definition of an artist. Ivan Turgenev by Hisham Matar 2011-03-05T00:07:40Z They’re sharply observant but not very nuanced; the image of a materialist Buddha clutching cigarettes, beer and a cellphone is typical. Art Review: As China Evolves, So Does an Artist 2011-01-27T21:05:47Z The book’s last section is particularly poignant, as retirees realize: “We stalk the dead mall: Leaks/ Galore, Bare Ruined Racks, Etcetera,” and a self-proclaimed materialist finds freedom as people purchase pieces of her estate. Rita Dove’s essential new ‘Collected Poems: 1974-2004’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z She's the lover Ben deserves, a cool materialist, bruised by life and cynical about everything. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z The philosophy was going to pay off in the most literal and direct way; it was going to do what it said on the tin, and bring the materialists their material reward. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z This materialist viewpoint has become the lens through which most of us interpret the world, interact with it, and judge what is true. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z Over the last several centuries in the West, many scientists have functioned within a strict materialist, reductionist framework that holds to one essential assumption: “Matter is all that exists.” 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z "At the root of Bond there was something neo-fascistic and totally materialist," Le Carre said. Was James Bond just a "neo-fascist gangster?" 2010-08-17T12:53:00Z He also wrote about weird science and reinterpreted alchemy through materialist dialectics. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z The problem is that — in spite of the context she provides for how norms developed in the first place — Gelfand routinely ignores materialist explanations for the various phenomena she considers. Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z These endeavours might one day lay bare religious belief in terms of biology, and therefore ultimately in the materialist terms of chemistry and physics. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Does the introduction of modern materialist cultures into indigenous communities inevitably destroy their essence? Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But, as a matter of fact, he behaves like a fanatical fundamentalist engaged in a holy war to defend the materialist doctrine. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z In this elegantly materialist telling, subjective experience is deeply embodied in physical form. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Anti-Semitism is a metaphysical passion, not a materialist one. Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z In “Garden,” she questions the power she ascribed to materialist totems— like a wedding, a house and a garden— to bring her happiness. Diaspora Baby: L.A. folk singer Raye Zaragoza says, 'We were cowboys too' 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Rastafari reject materialist values and often practice a strict oneness with nature, eating only unprocessed foods as part of “Ital” their faith’s vegetarian diet. Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But Lightman also wishes us to know that he is a materialist and that he is committed to a scientific view of the world. Review | Explaining spiritual experiences through a scientific lens 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The government’s experiment stirred a collective consciousness that art was not about a personal pursuit or materialist effort. How a group of abstract painters in New Mexico — and the U.S. government — changed modern art 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The era’s tumultuous bouts with the debilitating effects of materialist greed, international corporate capitalism and abusive authoritarian power structures were among the forces instrumental in the movement’s organized formation. Review: Transcendental Painting Group is one of Modern art’s best kept secrets. This LACMA show proves it 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z To the extent you can, at least, because you could have taught them frugality and produced backlash materialists, or spoiled them to the bejeezus and launched a generation of backlash eco-ascetic evangelists. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Ex’s big-spending girlfriend leaves a mom feeling erased 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The scholars model their approach after James, who rescued religious experiences from both metaphysicians, who saw them as threats to orthodoxy, and materialists, who dismissed them as madness. Review | ‘The Varieties of Spiritual Experience’ aims to update a classic 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z So in this thoroughly researched, well-written but ultimately unsatisfying book, he maps out a materialist’s view of personhood that is consistent with our experiences of the transcendent. Review | Explaining spiritual experiences through a scientific lens 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Literalism and a materialist conception of God are the two forces keeping us from a fuller knowledge. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When an ordinary Korean youth decides to follow a "rich girl" like Ji-a, their fixation goes beyond just a materialist admiration. Single's Inferno: Why 'fake' rich girl Song Ji-a enraged South Korea 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Flamboyant materialist displays have long found eager audiences online, with the Chinese internet no exception. In China, Bragging About Your Wealth Can Get You Censored 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Francis echoed a common theme he has raised with young people, encouraging them to stay fast in their faith, even amid doubts, and resist the temptation to pursue materialist goals. Leaving Greece, pope asks youth to resist tempting ‘sirens’ 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z "Unlike Western materialist cultures, which seek to preserve their artworks as a way to attract monetary value, indigenous cultures regard their artefacts as beings with life, and therefore perishable," explained Mr Walling. From Mexico to Dumfries: Totem pole completes 5,500 mile voyage 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z For Ibn Sina, gravity exists both in the materialist realm of the senses and in the cognitive realm of the mind or soul. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The very best Verge stories are fundamentally about how technology makes us feel — from the simple materialist joy of seeing a beautiful new product revealed to the complicated existential crisis caused by social network moderation. A note from our editor-in-chief 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z There can be a foundation of Asian American politics that is essentially materialist and economic in its concerns. 'The Loneliest Americans': A conversation about Asian Americans and race with Jay Caspian Kang 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z In that case, the title of Dennett’s book is actually a good way to describe the materialist defaults in secular culture. Opinion | A Guide to Finding Faith 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Hawking’s materialist philosophy, shared by Weinberg and many other prominent physicists, sees the universe as arising through some combination of chance and natural law. Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z But “as a materialist atheist, I really couldn’t find a reason for that,” she recalled. Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z For some of us who are materialists and apply Marxist analyses, part of our worst impulses are when we argue that class concerns should submerge concerns about racial justice. After Trump, the crisis: White America at the historical crossroads 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Philosopher David Chalmers, who has rejected strictly materialist solutions of what he calls “the hard problem” of consciousness, nonetheless insists that one day we’ll crack it. Quantum Mechanics, the Mind-Body Problem and Negative Theology 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Their tensions may be rooted, abstractly, in the materialist greed and prescribed gender roles of their particular decade, but they are also borne of differences in class and culture. Review: In 'The Nest,' Jude Law and Carrie Coon give us an unnerving anatomy of a marriage 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z A man in a Vets for Bernie shirt listed some of the words that he learned from listening to “Chapo”: Marxist materialist, the superstructure, neoliberal. The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The materialist working hypothesis is that brains and minds, in humans and maggots and everything else, are identical. Why your brain is not a computer 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Free-will deniers tend to be hard-core materialists, who think reality, ultimately, consists of particles pushed and pulled by fundamental forces. My Go-To Arguments for Free Will 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Is matter self-sufficient, as materialists insist, or does reality require mind too? Quantum Mechanics, the Mind-Body Problem and Negative Theology 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Horgan raises a series of objections from the point of view of a materialist paradigm, which as he rightly points out, was more or less 'under siege' during this event. Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Without reasonable upward mobility even on superficial materialist terms, no liberalism. A decade closer to apocalypse: Looking back at the mayhem of the 2010s 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z One of the most fervent of late 19th century materialists, T.H. How a Flawed Experiment "Proved" that Free Will Doesn't Exist 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Today, materialists aim to explain it as purely physical. Shared consciousness, artificial imagination, and the Universe’s first seconds: Books in brief 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But this time, it is not hard to see that the motivation is more materialist than usual. Why are Democratic party elites so desperate for a 2020 centrist candidate? | Hamilton Nolan 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Following a materialist outlook, many commonly reported and widely experienced phenomena for which there is ample documentation are simply ruled out as impossible by default. Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z And I knew the Sanskrit classics, including the Lokayata, which is of the materialist school. Amartya Sen’s Hopes and Fears for Indian Democracy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Hanisch’s counter-argument was basically a Marxist materialist one: if you want to understand how and why people are oppressed, you have to ask who benefits from their oppression. When calling out environmental hypocrisy is nothing but a cynical ploy | Zoe Williams 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “The Depression turned me into a materialist. I was after the bucks,” he said, a mission he completed grandly. Lee Iacocca, father of the Ford Mustang who later rescued Chrysler, dies at 94 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z My main advice to people of faith, whether Christians or hard-core scientific materialists, is to doubt yourself. In Defense of Disbelief: An Anti-Creed 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Fifteen men and women representing physics, psychology and other fields attempted to make sense of mystical and paranormal experiences, which are generally ignored by conventional, materialist science. Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Chiang’s materialist universe is a secular place, in which God, if there is one, belongs to the phenomenal realm of scientific investigation and usually has no particular interest in humankind. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The answer is not to strive for greater individual perfection, but to return to that first materialist analysis: who benefits from climate inaction? When calling out environmental hypocrisy is nothing but a cynical ploy | Zoe Williams 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z There’s a huge overlap between things that wreak havoc on the climate and things that serve a materialist version of the good, comfortable life: meat-eating, air-conditioning, air travel. The Other Kind of Climate Denialism 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead, his ripostes are every bit as anchored in a materialist view of existence as Rameau’s nephew’s. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He has since written about consciousness from a materialist, scientific perspective, making the case that what we think of as free will is an illusion. Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The materialists and pessimists among us may reply that it's "just" a robot. A grieving Earth says goodbye to Martian rover Opportunity 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Writing in the show’s catalogue, the art historian Emily Braun adduces, in Fontana, a temperamental identification with “the Fascist viewpoint of a Latin and Catholic culture in epochal conflict with a materialist, Protestant one.” The Once Radical Slashes of Lucio Fontana 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Hard-core materialists insist it is a pseudo-problem, which vanishes once you jettison archaic concepts like “the self” and “free will.” Mind–Body Problems: My Meta-Solution to the Mystery of Who We Really Are 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z “Rameau’s Nephew” is, in this way, the first debate between two such materialists, both of whom reject superstition and the supernatural but end in radically different places. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “By his psychological type, he was a materialist,” Mr. Ivanov said. A Spy Story: Sergei Skripal Was a Little Fish. He Had a Big Enemy. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z According to one of the movement’s founders, its defining feature is likely to be its adherence to “the materialist left, not the moral left”. German leftwingers woo voters with 'national social' stance 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z With that, Lightman begins an exploration of the tensions, both within himself and without, between the materialist reductionism of science, especially physics, and the absolutes of spiritual belief. A physicist probes the metaphysical 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Europe’s secularisation, reflecting a break-up of traditional communities and more materialist attitudes, is familiar to sociologists. As French Catholics hail a martyr, the faith is fading in Europe 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z A century earlier, Johnny would have been painting the Windsors; now, in a society made by and for such pampered materialists as the Miserdens, he is left with a less-exalted subject. The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z This is more or less what happens, Liu seems to be saying, when the tough realities of economic deprivation brush up against the elusive promise of prosperity in a relentlessly materialist society. 'Have a Nice Day' is a grimly absorbing gangster thriller set in contemporary China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He’s a powerful advocate of the scientific method who is not a materialist. Jordan Peterson: ‘The pursuit of happiness is a pointless goal’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z At the other extreme are so-called eliminative materialists, who question whether anything is really conscious, including humans. Jellyfish, Sexbots and the Solipsism Problem 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z On Postone’s reading this means there is a significant danger that the materialist left will simply attempt to repeat the past, acting out its own version of the end of history: Intersectional-what? Feminism's problem with jargon is that any idiot can pick it up and have a go 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z He is a materialist who views the world and the universe beyond as being made up of varying arrangements of particles that enable differing levels of activity. Max Tegmark: ‘Machines taking control doesn’t have to be a bad thing’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z A brisk materialist who thinks that “people are small next to physics” and interprets love as no more than a “Darwinist illusion”, she shares a steely detachment with the female sleuths of Nordic noir. Peter Hoeg’s new novel is a high-concept thriller 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z At least that’s the conventional wisdom, which argues that there is no place for religion in a China consumed by materialist capitalism under the control of a dictatorial government. Opinion | Flourishing spirituality in China, apart from traditional Western dogma 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Sitting in the front row was Thomas Nagel, whose 1974 essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” challenged materialist accounts of consciousness. Jellyfish, Sexbots and the Solipsism Problem 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z On his own account, Mayhew’s main purpose was simply to educate his uncaring, indifferent and materialist society. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 66 – London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851) 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Transhumanists do not believe in the existence of a soul, but they are not strict materialists, either. God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Later, during the Enlightenment, clockwork mechanisms left their imprint on materialist arguments that man was only a sophisticated machine. New Technology Is Built on a ‘Stack.’ Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The story contains only neurons and machines, and is entirely materialist; even so, it shows that you aren’t situated “in” your brain the same way you’re situated “in” a room. Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z If possible I would prefer something by a fervent materialist about a wealthy clubman and a dark apachess—or something about love. “I.O.U.” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The slogan “We are the 99%” and the movement’s articulation of the divide between the “1%” and the rest of us offered a materialist, structural understanding of American inequality. Barack Obama's original sin: America's post-racial illusion 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z To break this materialist spell and set oneself free for faith requires rebelling not against scientific facts but against flawed scientistic logic. Faith That Upholds Humanity—and Liberty 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Yet a mechanistic and materialist way of conceiving human actions has become entrenched, in part because economics has become the predominant means of understanding the world. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The materialist world view is often associated with despair. Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The first four chapters attempt to deconstruct the purely materialist view of assets: Justin Welby: Putting money in its proper place - BBC News 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z He’s a know-it-all about medicine and music; a materialist with an expansive apartment and a drawer full of designer watches. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ dazzles with mind-bending visuals 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z A materialist worldview leaves formerly Christian cultures philosophically weak when those freedoms come under attack. Faith That Upholds Humanity—and Liberty 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z We are materialists, and we don’t believe in the soul. Margaret Drabble: ‘I am not afraid of death. I worry about living’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Most of the professional philosophers were materialists, like Dennett, but the graduate students were uncommitted. Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Research shows that children who buy into this materialist worldview are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and other psychological distress. How Companies Learn What Children Secretly Want 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z When asked to explain any complex phenomenon, they instinctively reduce it to a materialist cause. Hillary Clinton, this is why Democrats are still struggling 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The triumphs of capitalist imperialism in the nineteenth century, and of economic globalization after the Cold War, fulfilled on a grand scale the Enlightenment dream of a worldwide materialist civilization knit together by rational self-interest. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Surely there is more to the brain than biology, she insists to her boyfriend, a hard-core materialist named Spike. Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Roberts is decidedly not in the materialist camp. When All Economics Is Political 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z I do believe, however, that the materialist analysis of life can’t account for our darkest or highest moments. Perfect Strangers: When Chelsea Handler Met Leon Wieseltier 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z To do so was to invite the accusation of being a materialist—of believing in a world without any role for a grand creator—or even of being an atheist. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z In other words, is ITT a materialist or dualist theory of mind? Can Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z In the gallery, the art is on sale, it’s a materialist item people buy and sell. Amarillo differs on bid to ban whimsical signs 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z To a hard materialist, the world is physics all the way down. When All Economics Is Political 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z In the summer of of 1987, when he officially declared his candidacy, he positioned himself as an opponent of “materialist values, declining industries, drug abuse, inadequate schools and kids abandoned to poverty,” per TIME. This Is What Happened the First Time Joe Biden Ran for President 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z He was a materialist who saw the world much as Descartes did. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z He also renewed his calls for people to embrace change and challenge selfish and materialist principles in society. Pope Francis praises Cuba Church at Holguin mass - BBC News 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Without wanting to sound too much like the great historical materialist James Carville, I’ve always believed that politics is the flip side of economics, and vice versa, because they share a common framework. How Will the Economy’s “Lost Decade” Play Out in 2016? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z As a result, people prioritized the materialist values of economic and physical security. Can Ya Dig It?—How Rebels, Hipsters and Mr. (and Ms.) Cool Reshaped Consumer Culture [Excerpt] 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z This, Simpson says, is because its cold satire “answered to the intensely competitive, materialist conditions” of the time. The Truth About Animal Stories 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In fact, the only regular Jewish character on the show Dunham created is Shoshanna, a shallow, coddled materialist who fits snugly into a Jewish American Princess stereotype that I thought had been blessedly retired. Lena Dunham’s Not an Anti-Semite, She’s Just Clueless 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z This, however, was no more than one could expect from a nation of vulgar materialists—Lenard would surely have sympathy with Napoleon’s remark about shopkeepers—who knew nothing of the heroic, selfless Germanic Kultur. How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Insofar as I was on board for one miracle well beyond the reach of materialist science, Griffiths was suggesting, I should remain open to the possibility of others. The Trip Treatment 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z For the hardcore Islamists, Judaism represents not just the Jewish people but the corrosive, materialist modernity that threatens piety and godly rule.” The Shadow of Anti-Semitism in France 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z On the day of regret, you may find yourself penetrating one of these areas, fired with clutter hatred and a revulsion of the materialist madness that has incited us to overgift at Christmas. Tales of the day after Christmas 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z If we continue to only ask questions based in materialist science, we will never understand how the brain relates to the mind. Learning How Little We Know About the Brain 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z I am a scientist and a materialist myself, but I left Desimone’s office feeling bereft. The Anatomy of Attention 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z It seems farcical if one is a strict materialist. Pope Francis’ Tweet About Inequality Is the Wake-Up Call We All Need 2014-05-02T17:00:10Z A book that views a noted saint and theologian of the Catholic Church as–a materialist? Book Of the Year: The Most Famous Medieval Materialist 2013-12-22T17:13:00Z One reviewer found James’s critique of a materialist society to be convincing: Affluenza, as defined by James, is clearly recognisable as our way of life. Texas boy avoids jail in deaths of four after psychologist testifies wealth spoiled him 2013-12-12T18:56:17Z Both men face a crisis of Christian belief in the materialist West. Letter From Europe: The Pope and the Archbishop 2013-06-17T11:22:18Z If this piece helps materialists move towards a more humble, open-minded world-view, you have done a great service to the search for truth. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z The black holes and quantum leaps studied by scientists today would be inconceivable to the materialist philosophers of the ancient world, with their simple notions of indivisible atoms. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z Heedless, improvisational, materialist and seemingly unburdened by history, California was the future, and Percy wanted none of it. What to Look for in a New Pope 2013-03-09T00:05:49Z The claim supposing Diamond’s subscription to the historical materialist theory of history is a waste of energy. Jared Diamond On Traditional Society, Warfare And Eschewing Technology Plus Updated Commentary 2013-02-13T04:06:33Z He might have produced a more compelling work if he had ranged more widely in his survey of alternatives to materialist dogma. Is Scientific Materialism "Almost Certainly False"? 2013-01-30T14:15:00.203Z Someone who is well grounded, not too materialist, someone that loves the finer things, but also loves roughing it from time to time. Wanted: Secretary/Driver Who Looks Like Character from 'The Force Unleashed' 2012-11-30T21:26:06Z For the most part, I’m a hard-core materialist, but my experience—and those reported by Alexander and others—makes me suspect that our minds have untapped depths that conventional science cannot comprehend. What Should We Do With Our Visions of Heaven and Hell? 2012-11-27T21:45:00.250Z Californians are perceived as a bunch of materialists obsessed with bling, cars, tans, IPOs, wineries, private jets, and various types of cosmetic augmentation and reduction. How California can pay its debt 2012-05-22T10:24:38Z Perhaps it's this sort of materialist thought that leads Mr Yglesias to say that "Preaching good behavior won’t do anything to reduce" teen motherhood. Economics and culture: Maybe teen motherhood isn't so bad 2012-05-17T17:55:27Z The average Christian, whatever he may say to the contrary, is, theoretically speaking, a materialist, and, I might add, a polytheist. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z "But materialists are sometimes very good people?" she questioned. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Although I was skeptical of that particular theory, I liked the hard-nosed, materialist, reductionist approach that Koch and Crick took toward consciousness. Christof Koch on Free Will, the Singularity and the Quest to Crack Consciousness 2012-04-02T20:45:09.243Z We affirm no more of God than materialists imply of matter, and we endow him with no attributes that they do not virtually ascribe to matter. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The definition given by Berkeley of matter is one which no materialist will be ready to accept, i.e., “an inert, senseless substance in which extension, figure, and motion do actually exist.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The materialist may scoff at it, but it remains a primitive part of human nature against which argument beats itself in vain. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Then you think if you had remained a materialist——" "I should have perished," he interrupted, gravely, "and I use that word in no thoughtless sense. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z As soon, however, as our agnostic has made these formal mental reservations, he talks and acts as the rank materialist he at bottom is. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z The result was that he remained no longer a materialist, but was an ardent believer in the spiritual world. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z The contention between materialist and idealist is irrelevant to our discussion. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z “The dark and debasing doctrines of the materialists”! Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The materialist and spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd—each thinking that he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z But the Socialism of earlier days was as incompatible with this materialistic conception as the conception of Nature of the French materialists was with dialectics and modern natural science. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z It has been maintained that the physician seeking in the arcana of nature the causes of every vital phenomenon becomes a materialist: nothing can be more unjust, nay, more absurd, than such a supposition. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The materialist calls triumphant attention to the constancy of material phenomena, and proves, by careful comparison with co�rdinate psychical phenomena, the uniformities in the latter. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Even our friends in Europe are inclined to put us down as materialists. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z But even he would scarce endure so bitter and ardent haters as these, and with so many and inconsistent objects of hatred—who hate Catholics and thorough Protestants, hate materialists, and hate spiritualists. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The theoretical apostasy of Kautsky lies just in this point: having recognized the principle of democracy as absolute and eternal, he has stepped back from materialist dialectics to natural law. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z But the "New Hegelians," as they were called, became disbelievers in religion and in spiritual things altogether, and either lapsed, like Strauss, into intellectual scepticism, or, like Feuerbach, became aggressive materialists. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Materialism is as much metaphysics as Spiritualism is; and the materialist who condemns metaphysics condemns himself. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The thinking world was to be divided into materialists and supernaturalists. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Amid his delight at the botanical riches of the new and elevated region in which he is travelling, we catch, if only by echo, the hem and chuckle of the French materialist. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z I am a materialist to that extent; I want something to eat. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z The fascination of simplicity proved more than a match for nicety of distinction, and both were ranked among materialists. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z The materialist objects that if the physical side of nature is the essential one, the psychical cannot be essential. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z For the materialist, of course, that which makes the man is the form. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Lincoln was centrally in no sense a materialist. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z He was a thorough materialist—he scorned religion and all mysticism. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z With us the sensational philosophy has become refined into a philosophy of experience, and the materialist finds himself in a region where to distinguish between matter and spirit is difficult, to say the least. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z He believed that Frederick, cynic and materialist though he admits him to have been, nevertheless proved himself the valiant defender of his country’s right to self government. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z They tend to be grim materialists, who equate economic value with functional practicality. How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel 2012-01-06T14:44:42Z Scientifically regarded he was a realist as opposed to an idealist, a sensationist as opposed to an intuitionist, a materialist as opposed to a spiritualist. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z They had been, but perhaps of necessity, materialists, valuers only of the expensively concrete; yes, the majority of such adventures had been sordid. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The extreme doctrine of the two schools was represented, on the one side by the materialists, on the other by the mystics. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z By the light of that torch men again began to see things in true proportion, and to-day we can say of those earlier materialists “their knowledge is the wisdom of yesterday.” The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Primitive religions, doubtless, are neither spiritualist nor materialist; they are animistic. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z But there was something so exquisite about this girl's face as to make a hardened materialist hesitate to resolve her into a physiological formula. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z They sometimes show themselves in a way which must be more startling to the materialist than to the believer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The ablest representative of Unitarianism was Joseph Priestley, a materialist of the school of Hartley. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z With his illegitimate hypothesis of annihilation, the materialist transgresses the bounds of experience quite as widely as the poet who sings of the New Jerusalem with its river of life and its streets of gold. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z I pity the solidity of the materialists who cannot see my present course to be the most useful and spiritual. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z The movement for establishing "Equal Rights in Religion" was uniting Liberal Christians, Jews, independent theists, Spiritualists, materialists, evolutionists, agnostics, and atheists. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z "In his philosophy, he was a realist, as opposed to an idealist; he was a sensationalist, as opposed to an intuitionalist; and was a materialist as opposed to a spiritualist." Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z The objections of materialists did not in the least disturb him. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z In the discussions, Bismarck brought to sustain his cause the most influential members of the ministerial group, such as Gneist, a Freemason, Lasker, a hostile Jew, the apostate pastor, Richter-Mariendorf, and the materialist professor, Virchow. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z No one claimed the money, and Cruikshank remained a religious materialist, charmingly boyish in his amusement over the ghosts of tears and dirt. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z I will endeavor to make what materialists mean by the impossibility of a first cause or last effect clear to "Rationalist." Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z Enrique a materialist, when there is not a more generous man in the world! The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z As they were not materialists, so they did not exclude reason from the psychical properties of their substances. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Modern Socialism originated in a group of uncompromising materialists. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The historical method is subject to two misunderstandings, Dewey says, one by the empiricists and materialists, the other by the idealists. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Why else does he write his learned books in defense of the materialist philosophy? The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Though he had "spiritual hopes," he agreed that he should be called a materialist. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z On one side the proposition, 'No object without subject,' makes materialism for ever impossible; for the materialist tries to explain from relations among presentations what is the condition of all presentation. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Alá was pronounced by the majority to be a freethinker and materialist, he did not lack defenders who quoted chapter and verse to prove that he was nothing of the kind. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Not pieces, as the materialist, thinking only in the Sense, would have us believe. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z So we discover that the materialist, in the philosophic sense, is making just as large an act of faith, is pronouncing just as bold a dogma as any priest of any religion. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The problems of the dogmatic philosophers, be they idealists, materialists, or realists, concern us as little as do these religious questions. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z On the other side, we are all compelled to agree with the materialists that knowledge of the object comes late in a long series of material events. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z La Mettrie was the most extreme writer among the earliest French materialists. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z He drew into discussion every atheist and materialist he met, talked with them closely and confidentially, and rose from the interview more confident in the strength of his own positions than ever. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z I felt myself literally introduced into a new world—into that spiritual world of which the carnal mind and the materialist know nothing. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z I do not think the materialist is entitled to say that his molecular groupings and his molecular motions explain everything, in reality they explain nothing.... Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z There are two classes of men, materialists and visionaries. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z As though any great poet who had come to years of discretion could be a materialist or an infidel. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z There were people of Catholic training, many of Protestant training, some of no religious training whatever, materialists, atheists, secularists, positivists—always thinking people, with their minds uppermost. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z The materialist is no new figure in human civilization. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Let us consider for a moment, what it was that induced the materialists to assume their position. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z The materialist is a slave to the fact. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z We’ve read a few of his works, though mamma disapproves of his tendencies and thinks him a dreadful materialist. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Even Haeckel postulates a sort of mind in the atom, and we have heard of “mind-stuff” before, from an equally determined materialist. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z He, too—his personality, or what he was pleased to call his personality—is dissolved, is dissipated, is gone; but the materialist never yet has been able, never will be able, to persuade mankind. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z We are fond of speaking of the men who have made this possible as money-grubbers or rank materialists. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z It avoids alike the radicalism of the demagogue and the stagnation of the materialist. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z He announced definite counter doctrines on his part, and advocated in his vehemence, almost as partial a view of things, as in their own way, did the materialists of his time. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z He is a pleasure-loving man of the world, fond of music, but a perfect materialist, and untroubled by the "souffle vers le beau" which torments so many people. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The extent of Marx's influence is shown by the economic explanation of the world-war, which is even accepted by the most decided opponents of the materialist conception of history. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z History has taken care to record that he died an atheist—that is to say, a materialist. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z But I am bold to say that if by matter is meant that which is above defined as substance, then no reasoning person can help being a materialist. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Parsons was too much of a materialist to admit he had a conscience. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z It says: "The consumerist ethos, in which a materialist vision is both peddled and, for the vast majority, simultaneously ruled out by exclusion, has extremely damaging consequences, both social and economic." UK riots were product of consumerism and will hit economy, says City broker 2011-08-22T15:53:42Z If we look at the dialectical method as here presented, Hegel might be taken for a materialist thinker. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z Professor of marketing Russell W. Belk of York University in Canada calls this materialist perspective the “extended self.” Passion for Possessions: Mine! 2011-08-22T04:15:15.820Z There is a difficulty for the metaphysician—the difficulty which is involved in discussions between materialists and idealists, determinists and believers in free will. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Joined to his indifference is a faculty for staking his all on some absurd punctilio: his interest in ideas is greater than in many parts of Italy, his ambitions and pleasures more materialist. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The materialist conceived the world as an aggregate of atoms, separated one from the other and having no reciprocal relevance of any sort whatsoever. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z The materialist conception of history, unethical and unidealist like all natural science, opens up wide and elevating prospects. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z Thus, "according to the conception of materialists, man's historical evolution also moves in a constantly ascending line." Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z It has been accepted most fully by men hostile to all theology, by the free-thinker, the atheist, and the materialist, whom the orthodox denounces as criminal. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z In the second place it shows the difference between the God who is a Loving Intelligent Will and the materialist's god who is no more than a blind Samson. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z We have one proof of this in our modern idealists, and another in our doctrinaire materialists—the German Communists.- 69 - God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z As an example of the materialist tendency of his philosophy, the following references will serve. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z One of the text-books prescribed for the universities was an atheistic work by the English materialist Bentham. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z The astronomical doctrine of a Newton remains equally valid, whatever is the ultimate nature of space or laws or atoms; whether we are materialists or empiricists or idealists. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z To the materialist the ultimate power is material power, and psychical life is nothing but fleeting colocations of natural elements in the shape of nervous systems. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z WHO are right, the idealists or the materialists? God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z No materialist could have said this better: the owl—the symbol of wisdom—only begins her flight in the evening, after the busy activities of the world are over. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z The definition given by Berkeley of matter is one which no materialist will be ready to accept, i.e.f "an inert, senseless substance in which extension, figure, and motion do actually exist." Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z When used by a materialist it has two important meanings. Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:33.907Z The French materialists of the eighteenth century virtually declared: "We content ourselves with what we can prove by the methods of physical science and we will reject all else." The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Undoubtedly the idealists are wrong and the materialists right. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z He was no idealist; needless to say, he was no materialist, no one less so; nor does the term realist seem to recall his nature. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z The materialist may scoff, but the voice of the Ages is louder and clearer in our ears than his. Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland 2011-05-10T02:00:58.153Z The patriotism, implicit Protestantism and ethic of obedience the military embodies is regarded as a bulwark against the self-gratifying, materialist spirit of the age. How the Monarchy Allows Britannia to Make Waves 2011-04-28T10:05:00Z No one who is aware of the progress made in the exact sciences of to-day can pretend to be a materialist. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z To us materialists and Revolutionary Socialists, there is nothing astonishing or terrifying in this historical phenomenon. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z What if he, Holm, the despised materialist, were to be the first to discover the dawn here! Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z In his belief, Kurz was properly a materialist, but by trade he was a mercer. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z The materialist starts from the atom, which, he says, has in itself all the possibilities of the universe and outside of which there is nothing. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z “It is a painful thing to kill a man,” added the materialist doctor to Steinfeld, who stood regarding his victim with a moody and regretful gaze. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Perhaps, too, while speaking of liberty as something very respectable and very dear in their eyes, they give the term a meaning quite different from the conception entertained by us, materialists and Revolutionary Socialists. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z It is true that this definition is too wide, and includes things which are not religion—there are certain attitudes to life which are definitely anti-religious—that of the materialist, for instance. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z But that's not really my style; I'm a materialist to the core. Apps for taking inventory, tracking your stuff at home 2011-03-31T17:50:52Z It is the materialist and the atheist, who flinch and fail, and who never succeed, because they have lost the Great Companion who alone could give permanence and value to whatever they have done. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z They are afraid of losing ground, and most have changed their goals in life because the traditional materialist goals are simply unachievable. Work, love and world 2011-03-29T11:29:58Z Who are the real idealists—the idealists not of abstraction, but of life, not of heaven, but of earth—and who are the materialists? God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z This was not the case until science began to be associated with a certain fairly definite philosophy of a mechanistic, and later of a materialist, description. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z I have never seen him since except as fancy pictured nor heard his voice as a materialist may hear, though many times it seemed he spoke to me in a way I cannot explain. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z The full inwardness of the incident had not penetrated to his brain; he saw without believing, in the manner of the materialist who denies the marvellous even when it is before his eyes. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z So far the decadent materialism of Epicurus might have carried a poet; but a materialist in our days might find many other poetic themes to weave into his system. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z In a word, you will always find the idealists in the very act of practical materialism, while you will see the materialists pursuing and realizing the most grandly ideal aspirations and thoughts. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z And with regard to the materialist or mechanistic view, it is highly interesting to note that its greatest attraction has consisted in something which, strictly speaking, is not its own property. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Yet, in spite of what I have said, I must confess to you that I am no materialist, taking the word of course in its usual signification. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z I will ask a materialist, how came this universe at first? The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The materialist is primarily an observer; and he will probably be such in ethics also; that is, he will have no ethics, except the emotion produced upon him by the march of the world. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z All of them have had too much imagination to be materialists, that is, to consider that they could know nothing except what they learned from the matter with which their studies were taken up. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z It is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance attached by materialists, ever since Lucretius, to the conception of indivisible and indestructible atoms. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Because some physiologists have been materialists, it has been inferred that physiology was favorable to materialism. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z This argument from comfort is unworthy of any but a pagan or materialist, for the end of existence is something higher than pleasure or escape from all hardship. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z He realizes that the greater the man, the greater is the failure, yet protests unfailingly against the despondent or materialist view of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It is the ignoble feature of your art to be materialist. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Melt down that absurdity, the scientific materialist, and show him LIFE!' The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z But it is now found that they were materialists in spite of physiology, rather than from a correct interpretation of its facts. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Whatever her outward religion might be, she was at heart a materialist, not from conviction, but from shallowness, due to the absence of all the higher powers of reflection and imagination. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z And already there are symptoms enough that the creed of the materialist does not satisfy the soul. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z I am going to avoid the expression "materialist interpretation of history" when the words "economic interpretation of history" are equally correct and less likely to mislead. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Australians, a materialist people, have loved sport because it's based on numbers. An Australian on the Ashes: We've got other things to be proud about 2011-01-07T18:51:23Z Those who profess to understand and teach them have been, for the most part, decided opponents of special providence and special grace, and many of them materialists. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Perceptibility and reality thus not being coincident, man and the universe remain an unsolved problem, despite the noisy shoutings of the materialist in his hermetically sealed and light-excluding case called sensual perceptions. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z “But the materialists,” said the astronomer, “urge that matter may have qualities with which we are unacquainted.” Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z It is described as the "materialist conception of history," and for this reason many people imagine that the admission of this theory means the exclusion of the ideal. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Just here comes along the materialist and asks us some questions, tries to serve on us a kind of metaphysical writ of quo warranto. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z The latter branch, indeed, affords such decided proofs of immaterialism, as to have led several able materialists to change their views. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z To think of them as materialists is impossible. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z There are materialists by instinct in every age and country; there are always private gentlemen whom the clergy and the professors cannot deceive. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z This is a profound error due to a misunderstanding of the use of the word "materialist." Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Let us beware of going beyond our knowledge, says the materialist. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z The mere metaphysical abstractions by which they are usually met excite only the contempt of the acute physiologist who is a materialist. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z But in our study of the Fairy-Faith we shall attempt to deal with this Why of things; and, then, perhaps the value of studying fairies and Fairyland will be more apparent, even to materialists. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Otherwise, though his technical philosophy may call itself idealism, he is a materialist in morals; he esteems things, and esteems himself, for mechanical uses and energies. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z It was hinted by materialists that they were thieves; by unbelievers in spiritualism that they had perhaps escaped from a seance in some adjoining town. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The encyclopædic attainments of Alexander von Humboldt, for example, left him, to all intents and purposes, a materialist of the eighteenth century. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z Admitting the premises of the materialist to be correct, it does indeed show us the proximate cause of thought. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Had he not then regarded himself as a gross materialist, caring for nothing but plenty of good food and unbroken peace? Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z Not the materialists and engineers running the country, though. LETTER FROM CHINA: Fast Forward Past the Memories 2010-04-15T13:10:00Z The reward of the Stoic disciple is vain and poor to the gross materialist. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Do you already hold, with those sleek materialists, that the miracle is ridiculous, and the spirit but a tale told from one to another, and to which man listens? Four Phases of Love The materialist will, indeed, say that matter has possessed this power from eternity. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z What had begun with the subtle disputes of the universities of Paris, went on to the materialist teachers in the medical schools and the sceptical men of the world in the cities of northern Italy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" It was the birth of a new sensation, the most poignant of all sensations, although philosophers deny and materialists scoff at it. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 It seems a little crude and superficial to contrast the materialist and idealist conceptions of God in the later Stoic creed. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Don't call me a materialist, and say it's only your body's beauty that I value. Beggars on Horseback What is it that always jumps to the mind of the average materialist? The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France The materialists have never been able to show the possibility of the first step. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer It freed the phalanx of materialists from a body of opponents, which still made them tremble. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion The materialist dreamer was, like Napoleon I., without a rudimentary moral sense. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius She is a materialist; she wants immediate results, and all that keeps her from being a gambler is the fear of losing. A Yankee from the West A Novel He was the materialist, and dealt in palpable appearances. The Key to Yesterday However, only a few consistent materialists have included truth along with error as merely phenomenal and subjective. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It's long been known that you materialists have not classical culture enough to distinguish between Orpheus and Morpheus. The Children of the World Far too few men are actually killed and wounded, and the job is much too large for the materialists. Sonnets from the Patagonian The materialist will only be convinced by seeing and feeling. The Progressionists, and Angela. But he was a boy, a kind, good boy, an ingenuous, well-mannered materialist, living, as it were, by automatic functions, and as incapable of spiritual initiative as he was of evil. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece So talk the sanitary men—here, as in all their doctrines, showing themselves little better than materialists. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. It must not be a principle, like that of the materialist, which merely reduces the whole universe to an ultimate mysterious fact. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy There was an east wind blowing, and Patricia had always felt that an east wind made her a materialist. Patricia Brent, Spinster To be logical, the materialist must conclude that there is nothing good, nothing noble, no justice; for we have not yet seen nor felt nor smelt these things. The Progressionists, and Angela. There are of course men who are neither Christians nor materialists; but that is because they have not yet found their intellectual resting-place. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I The materialist looks upon it as the great and only reality. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. If we emphasize the one side, then Parmenides was a materialist. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy While unequivocally rejecting the accepted creeds, and so scandalizing even liberal theologians, he was still more hostile to simply sceptical and materialist tendencies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" I cannot understand," said Klingenberg hesitatingly, "how the materialists can make assertions which are untenable to the commonest understandings. The Progressionists, and Angela. He was the next thing to a slave, a man of the common people, and for all purposes of comparison, a thorough-going materialist. Thirty But he was bent on making Memmius a materialist, and teaching him to defy an invisible power; in short, he was so much an atheist, that he forgot sometimes to be a poet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 We saw in the first chapter, that man is naturally a materialist, and that philosophy is the movement from sensuous to non-sensuous thought. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This remarkable book, which even Voltaire and Frederick II. set themselves seriously to refute, contains a complete materialist system in metaphysics and theology. A Short History of French Literature "The materialist stumbles at the existence of human spirit, because he cannot get a conception of it." The Progressionists, and Angela. The materialist, reasoning on the fancied stability of natural things, and their inscription within invariable laws, concludes that matter must be eternal. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The emotion that begot the fancy of armed boyhood mischievous to man was as incredible to her as the dimpled personification is to a Hyde Park materialist. Carnival The other members of the Ionic school, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, are also materialists. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This displeasure is said to have been aggravated by his notorious membership of the freethinking and materialist school which Gassendi, if he had not founded it, had helped to spread. A Short History of French Literature Locke has been completely superseded by the materialists of Germany and France, and all speculative moral philosophy exploded. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. We listen to the answer of the materialist, but it does not satisfy, because somehow or other it does not account for everything. Some Essentials of Religion The masses of the inhabitants of the Roman world were not materialist. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses How then can Parmenides be called a materialist? A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The Gassendian school soon gave birth to a small but influential school of materialist freethinkers. A Short History of French Literature Philo was the first who tried to refute the “atheistic” views of materialists and pantheists by adducing proofs of God's existence from nature and the human intellect. Jewish Theology The boldest of these idealists were the extreme materialists, because, denying every religious fiction, they assigned this earth as a certain domain to the necessity of happiness provided that reason might open the way. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History The inherited creed had become unbelievable, and the scientific intellect was turning materialist. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses They did not abolish the supernatural with the materialists, or seek it in another world with the theologians; they found the supernatural in the natural. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series His chief subjects of discussion were, first, the theory of the revelation of language; and secondly, the theory of causality: in respect of both of which he combated the materialist school of the eighteenth century. A Short History of French Literature It is a mistake to set down Diderot for a coherent and systematic materialist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" But before then the world must sink deeper into materialist education. A Novelist on Novels There are more unions of souls in this world than materialists would like us to believe. Command As a philosopher he was a follower of Hartley, Erasmus Darwin, Priestley and Broussais; he was a physiological materialist, and a severe critic of Scotch metaphysics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" His most popular work, The Constitution of Man, was published in 1828, and in some quarters brought upon him denunciations as a materialist and atheist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" He seizes a hypothesis and works it to its end, and this made him the inspirer in others of materialist doctrines which they held more definitely than he did. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The public is a materialist by right of usage, and therefore prefers the reality of the theatre to all other forms of teaching or of amusement. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Before the time of Herr Duehring materialists were wont to speak of matter and motion. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" But Prince Kropotkin, who appears to be such a stern materialist, is a very enthusiast, who gives way to utter self-deception as to human nature. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory This will not bother the materialist who considers a living creature merely a machine, but it will most of us. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 The most instructive example we can take is Goethe: his veneration for nature on the one hand, and on the other his pronounced opposition to the naturalism both of the materialists and of the mathematicians. Naturalism And Religion This leads to results which would in a loose and popular sense be called materialist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" He reduces motion to mechanical force as its necessary original form and so renders incomprehensible the real connection between matter and motion which was also not evident to the earlier materialists. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" Thirdly, he was a physician and surgeon; and gentlemen of this profession are prone to become either thoroughgoing materialists, or else implicit and extreme Calvinistic Presbyterians, “of the large blue kind.” Devil Stories An Anthology We work in words, and words are, in good truth, images, feelings, thoughts; and of these the outer world, as well as the inner, is composed, let materialists say what they will. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Fever, and the impotence of the soul against it, made Holbach a materialist. Naturalism And Religion The former is essentially an idealist, the latter a materialist. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition From the technical point of view, it is abjectly materialist and militarist, and has no ideals. The Forerunners His philosophy is that of the extreme idealists or the extreme materialists, who alike maintain that nothing is, beyond the cognizance of our senses. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations It is only such a philosopher as our inspector, who believes animals are mere machines, who can be an atheist and a materialist. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) Yet he is a materialist, an opportunist, and mainly trusts to brute force. German Problems and Personalities Has the poick turned cynic, and the sickly sentimentalist become a materialist and a misogynist?” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 And, rightly enough, the attitude of the masses toward the secret and conspiratory methods of both the idealist anarchist and the materialist anarchist is the same. Violence and the Labor Movement I could understand the opposition of materialists, of atheists, or even Protestants. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 But that he was no atheist, no materialist, his acknowledged good sense is, alone, a sufficient proof. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) The Southern and Western German is an idealist; the Prussian is a realist and a materialist, a stern rationalist, who always keeps his eye on the main chance. German Problems and Personalities This materialist concept is the Socialist key to history. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View In one sense, the acts of the materialist anarchist are clearer even than those of the other. Violence and the Labor Movement The monstrous court of Charles II.—the grossest materialists! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But now they have all turned chemists and materialists ...' Fathers and Children To him it is pacificism which is an immoral doctrine, because it is the doctrine of the materialist, who believes that enjoyment is the chief end of life. German Problems and Personalities And others would have to be added who, after contending for a while as materialists or agnostics, ultimately changed their attitude and joined the supporters of Theism. God and the World A Survey of Thought An "idealist" is a man who is content to worship a woman from afar—and let some gross, unselfish materialist marry her and support her. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl They thought in terms of democracy–which is at bottom a spiritual estate,–and they acted like gross materialists. In the Heart of a Fool Charles Greville's ideas, as far as I can make them out, appear to me those of a materialist. Records of Later Life If the Germans may be described to-day as a nation of practical materialists, at one time they were described as a nation of dreamers. German Problems and Personalities Here, again, if railways were Canada's politics, it was not only because Canadians were materialists, but because they were idealists. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways This completely materialist conception of history is one of the greatest discoveries of our century, so rich in scientific discoveries. Anarchism and Socialism The effect of the application of such a sensational and materialist theory to religion will be anticipated. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The 'medical materialist' can ask for no more than this. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development To-day in any part of the land among rich, poor, ignorant or intellectual, orthodox or materialists the beautiful mature face is rarer than a white blackbird in the woods. The Heart of the New Thought The Stoic was nominally a pantheist, but he seems to have oscillated between a spiritual and a materialist explanation of the universal being. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Here, in this double problem, lies the whole significance of what is called the materialist ethics of the 18th century. Anarchism and Socialism French infidelity, breathing the spirit of materialist philosophy, halted not till it brought its devotees even to atheism, and mingled itself with the great movements of political revolution, which ultimately reconstituted French society. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion In saying what I have concerning the probability of misconception, I have had specially in mind the attack made by the late Professor William James on what he called the "medical materialists." Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Our pious contemporary, like any wretched materialist, declares that many persons have seen ghosts "when under the influence of fever or in a low state of health." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The Stoics, for instance, contrived to be both pantheists and materialists. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology The "materialist" Bakounine has no "social organisation" of his own make. Anarchism and Socialism The religious instincts of the heart were too strong to be permanently influenced by the cold materialist tone which reduced religion to state craft. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Herein he goes beyond the bounds of knowledge, and indulges in the very dogmatism for which he reprehends the materialist. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) A materialist eats rook-pie, and cares for nothing else but a sound digestion. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The materialist sees permanence only in the indestructibility of the ultimate physical constituents of his body. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Is not the only difference that the "materialist" transforms the Utopian programme of the "idealist," into something even more Utopian, more nebulous, more absurd? Anarchism and Socialism The religion of this great work was deism: the philosophy of it was sensationalist and almost materialist; seeming hardly to allow the existence of anything but mechanical beings. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion If we accept the fact of evolution at all, and are not materialists, there is no escape from the belief of the pre-existence of the soul. Elementary Theosophy He divides the world into "natural spiritualists and materialists." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Yet he protests against these tenets being deemed materialistic, which, he declares, they certainly neither are nor can be, for that while he himself certainly holds them, he as certainly is not himself a materialist. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications The solution of the riddle lies in the fact that he did not understand the materialist conception of history; he was only "adulterated" by it. Anarchism and Socialism The Lake school being a reaction against the materialist school, which almost degraded spirit to matter, traced a soul in nature, and was in danger of elevating matter to spirit. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The English scientist raised questions that have not been answered, and cannot be answered, by the scientific materialist. Elementary Theosophy The common herd of materialists are warned against wasting their time in reading him—which also is somewhat superfluous. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Even so the Third Temple will be of the Spirit, not of Fire, as these literal materialists translate the prophecy. Dreamers of the Ghetto This last argument is about all Bakounine was able to assimilate of the materialist conception of history. Anarchism and Socialism Mind is a form of energy, and immune from destruction as claimed by the materialist. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings He points out that the materialist's philosophy has no explanation for "the extraordinary rapidity of development, which results in the production of a fully endowed individual in the course of some fraction of a century." Elementary Theosophy We do not say that those who do not share our opinion of Buddha, Socrates, Mohammed, Bruno, Cromwell, Danton, or even Plato or Shakespeare, are grovelling materialists and candidates for perdition. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The materialist may think of it as a mechanical process relentlessly working itself out without design or purpose. The Meaning of Evolution Carnesy, old dear, I fear that you are a crass materialist. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 The hardened materialist pictures perfection solely in terms of wealth, the butterfly-woman wants little but physical beauty, charm, and the qualities that attract. The Practice of Autosuggestion With those two dozen words Lodge leaves the scientific materialist speechless; for all scientists are evolutionists, and it is impossible to account for "the extraordinary rapidity of development" by the laws of evolution. Elementary Theosophy He also follows the beaten track in arguing—or rather assuming—that the elect spiritualists have a "sense" which is lacking in the reprobate materialists. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) I go so far in this, that an honest thief in my eyes is more worthy of esteem than a canting materialist or a hypocritical free thinker. The Book of Khalid Paris, indeed, was in contrast with Rome, but more by its materialist philosophy than by its magnificent exhibition of material improvements. Pius IX. And His Time On the other hand are the jovial materialists like the Archpriest of Hita, culminating in the frantic, mystical sensuality of such an epic figure as Don Juan Tenorio. Rosinante to the Road Again Such a theory would be as unscientific as the popular belief in miraculous creation at which the scientific materialist scoffs. Elementary Theosophy From theology he turned to purely human and materialist philosophy; from an ideal of pure love to earthlier defilements. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History But in this society he met young men—and older men too, for several of the Dons were members—who were rationalists, materialists, and definitely sceptical. Beside Still Waters If the materialist can avoid paying fines, along with all other penalties of the laws of his country, what need he care for one course of life in preference to another? The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 The only things which materialists recognize as having any existence in the universe are matter and force. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 All who are not materialists, denying the existence of a Supreme Being, will agree that the wisdom and justice of God must be perfect. Elementary Theosophy And Mr. Haeckel would have us believe that a few "monistic materialists" are the only men entitled to a hearing upon the question of "Evolution." The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 It is quite possible to be a materialist or an idealist with respect to the immediate phenomena of consciousness, without attempting a philosophy of the Unconditioned at all. The Philosophy of the Conditioned To Albert, a student of Voltaire, of Hume, of Paine, and an admirer of Ingersoll, a doubter of scriptural authenticity, and almost a materialist in belief, this weird and piteous utterance came with peculiar effect. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast The materialist says, “He is the highest order of the animal kingdom, or an animal gifted with intelligence.” The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Either He is all-wise and absolutely just, or else the materialist is right. Elementary Theosophy So he excludes all true and intelligent Christians, for they are not and can not be "monistic materialists." The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 I do not, of course, mean to assert that all materialists deny or actually disbelieve a God. The Philosophy of the Conditioned I want to join an idealist society, I'll lead the opposition in it, I'll say I am a realist, but not a materialist, he he!” The Brothers Karamazov This at once sets aside all that materialists have said in order to show that spirit and breath are one and the same. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Another point on which all but the materialists must agree is that creation is so ordered that the common welfare of humanity is best served by just the conditions of life that surround us. Elementary Theosophy In this act, so lightly esteemed by the mere materialist, behold the realization of that great idea struggled for in the ages and proclaimed by the Fathers, the right of self-government. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II We do not mean that he consciously adopts the grosser tenets of the materialists. The Philosophy of the Conditioned Here he stuck, in spite of the "foundations," held in the confining bonds of idealism, and to this he testified in the words "Backwards I am with the materialists, but not forwards." Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy The old-fashioned materialist or “soul-sleeper” finds his fort in this fact. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 One of the three theories is that of the materialist. Elementary Theosophy The poor old chap is a born materialist. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories It is not the view of the materialists, but it is conceivable that the materialists may be wrong. Hawtrey's Deputy The French materialists had this conviction, to a fanatical degree, no less than the deists, Voltaire and Rousseau, and made the greatest personal sacrifices for it. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy And Belloc is almost materialist in his details, that he may be what most Englishmen would call mystical, not to say monstrous, in his aim. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work Yet the very facts of science to which the materialist appeals contradict such conclusions. Elementary Theosophy His psychology is that of the crass materialist—always a rather funny article. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories This argument is only equalled in feebleness by that of the materialist, who argues that "spiritus" means simply breath, therefore the breath is the soul. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This is substantially the theory of materialists generally, and of the old school medical colleges which consider human life a mere product of human tissues in combination—a doctrine conclusively refuted in “Therapeutic Sarcognomy.” Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 A lovely girl of twenty and a remarkably good-looking young man of twenty-eight meeting every day, every moment, at every meal—she, romantic; he, the most impressionable of materialists! The Twelfth Hour Life has not been explained and cannot be explained from the materialist's viewpoint. Elementary Theosophy The blankest materialist that ever lived, whoever he may have been, must have affirmed God even in the act of denying Him. The New Theology "Did you ever bring any children into the world?" asked this gross materialist among other impertinent questions. Tales of Space and Time It is customary to condemn the American as a materialist because of his worship of success. What I Saw in America And what of the British youngsters who did that, who were not materialists in the least, but many of them the idealists for whom no abuse once could be too vicious? Waiting for Daylight Chance is the king of the materialist's world. Elementary Theosophy I suppose the most out-and-out materialist would admit that in the western world the name of Jesus exercises an influence to which no other is even remotely comparable. The New Theology They take for granted—materialists and mystics alike—so much; so much, that there is no longer any tragic dilemma left, any sublime "parting of the ways," any splendid or terrible decision. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The philosophy of Plato, it is true, reaches at last the unknowable and the incomprehensible, but only after revealing another universe, the metaphysical and spiritual, entirely unknown to, or ignored or derided by the materialist. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology They denied the immortality of the soul and believed neither in angels nor in spirits; they represented the modern materialists. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition But the materialist's philosophy has no monopoly of bad points or undesirable beliefs. Elementary Theosophy The infinite being of God is utterly incomprehensible to a finite mind, and in regard to it the most devout saint is as much an agnostic as the most convinced materialist. The New Theology It is good that there should be a few great geniuses that are unmitigated materialists, and to whom the visible world is absolutely all there is. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I have heard one of these humanitarians avow that he and practically all his friends were materialists, and such they are even when they will not admit it. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance |
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