The physicians say they are not
materialists; but they are:--Spirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin!--But the definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own evidence.
C: By scientific standards, the
materialist hypothesis should be accepted and the God hypothesis should be rejected.
RIPON: 2.00 De Bruyne Horse, 2.35 Arnold, 3.10 Rita's Man, 3.40 WEEKEND OFFENDER (NAP), 4.10 The Feathered Nest, 4.40
Materialist, 5.10 Mighty Zip.
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science,
Materialist Poetics
Post
materialist values expressed a desire for community and self-realization and where nature was not seen as a resource that could be exploited for progress and efficiency, rather worthy of protection (Dwivedi, 2001).
The
materialist claims that this teleological form of explanation does not capture what is metaphysically fundamental, whereas his preferred physical form of explanation does.
Critics argued that the large age-difference found in 1970 reflected life-cycle effects rather than intergenerational change: young people naturally prefer Postmaterialist values such as participation and free speech, but as they matured, they would come to have the same
Materialist preferences as their elders, so the values of society as a whole would not change (Boeltken and Jagodzinski, 1985).
Inglehart (1989) argued that the change from the feudal to the capitalist production system favored the emergence of
materialist values, and that the economic stability of some post-industrial societies facilitated the emergence of post-materialist values.
However, despite the lack of consensus among specialists and the persistence of the problem, both academic and lay publications often present the
materialist view of mind as an established scientific fact that should be accepted by every educated person, including psychiatrists and scientists in general (4,8).
Thus while
materialists are right to complain that Cartesian dualism leaves mind-body interaction obscure, dualists are right to complain that purported
materialist explanations in fact ignore, or even implicitly deny, the existence of mind.
To begin, her Americans' transference of aims doesn't differ from what motivates a "real"
materialist. The acquisition of things cannot fulfill the
materialist's dream that having them will make her happy, attractive, and finally content that she has it all.
Are life and living systems amenable to
materialist explanations?
They have divergent worldviews, though they represent a spectrum of spiritualist to
materialist viewpoints.
