materialism

idealism

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nihilism

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dream

shadow

e=mc2

matter

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Albert Einstein

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capitalism

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is a theory which states that there is nothing other than matter in motion. Love and hate are just attraction and repulsion, good and bad are just appetites and aversions.

His psychological theory is therefore informed by mechanism, the general view that everything in the universe is produced by nothing other than matter in motion. According to Hobbes, this extends to human behavior. . . . . . In Hobbes' view, this mechanistic quality of human psychology implies the subjective nature of normative claims. 'Love' and 'hate', for instance, are just words we use to describe the things we are drawn to and repelled by, respectively.(internet encyclopedia social contract). . . ..So, too, the terms 'good' and 'bad' have no meaning other than to describe our appetites and aversions. (internet encyclopedia social contract)

is, along with spirituality, two sides of one and the same fact.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. Honore de Balzac

is defined by the demand 'not to indulge in storytelling'.

Not to indulge in storytelling' still remains for me the one and only definition of materialism. (Althusser 1994: 223)

is problematic in that the idea that men are products of circumstances and upbringing and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbringing neglects that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating. Karl Marx

 does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, who accomplishes revolution, as they are always accomplished through people. It does not ignore them, explains him.

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him. Leon Trotsky

 reminds every science of its real source and of the reality that it depends on: the world which men transform.

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics. Louis Althusser

 also encompasses mental perception in that, since it is connected with matter, it is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject. Maimonides

is the idea that 'being determines consciousness', as opposed to idealism, which states that 'consciousness determines being'.

being determines consciousness.' Marx defined idealism as: 'consciousness determines being.

materialism, n.Definitions

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