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Meanings of materialism in anglès

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materialisme

Theory in philosophy.

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      materialisme
      portuguès
      filistinismo

      A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.

            filistinismo
            Usage of materialism in anglès
            1
            It seems that materialism has grown in the Church, as in society.
            The Irish Times
            2
            The Jacobins were idealists; there was about this man a murderous materialism.
            The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
            3
            Or it may lead, as in the case of Helveticus, to materialism.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ...
            4
            We were poor sceptics trusting to economics-theeconomics of a base materialism.
            Painted Windows / Studies in Religious Personality
            5
            Not only does he despise materialism; he also disdains rationality and calculation.
            The new yorker
            6
            In this island many people are being lost to secularism and materialism.
            The Irish Times
            7
            Certainly, individualism tends to be correlated with materialism, and so is narcissism.
            The Guardian
            8
            In Britain there is a long tradition of moralising about mindless materialism.
            The Guardian
            9
            The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism.
            Meditations
            10
            A refined materialism is stamped on all the habits of Flemish life.
            The Alkahest
            11
            Many argue that, for residents who have renounced materialism, this is impossible.
            The Guardian
            12
            But as soon as it becomes intelligible, it ceases to be materialism.
            Biographia Literaria
            13
            They adhered to coarse materialism with its confusion of ends and means.
            After the Rain : how the West lost the East
            14
            Whence comes a latent materialism, ready to grasp the chance of self-expression.
            A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson
            15
            Fan is pragmatic when considering the rampant materialism of the new Beijing.
            BBC
            16
            But our present bishops are only one more aspect of Victorian materialism.
            The Altar Steps
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