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单词 materialism
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materialism

/məˈtɪərɪəlɪz(ə)m /
noun [mass noun]
1A tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values: they hated the sinful materialism of the wicked city...
  • Perceptions now abound of the West being held in the grip of materialism and spiritual values being sidelined.
  • This story teaches important lessons about materialism and valuing family relationships.
  • It also promotes vanity and materialism as a value.
2 Philosophy The theory or belief that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.And, if we don't really know what matter is, then materialism is in trouble....
  • The first is ontological materialism, which says that nothing exists except the material world.
  • This materialism was of a mechanical kind - with matter interacting like parts in a giant clockwork mechanism.
2.1The theory or belief that consciousness and will are wholly due to material agency. See also dialectical materialism.In respect to his materialism and determinism Collins was clearly influenced more by Hobbes and Bayle than he was by Locke....
  • As Marx pointed out, idealism often was better than materialism at capturing agency.
  • Hobbes' view shows progress for reconciling materialism, determinism and free will, but it is unsatisfactory.
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