Materialism is only as powerful of a god as the individuals who choose to worship it.
This materialism does not seem adequate as a value for guiding the global international family.
Trish was not a stupid girl, but out of greed, pride, and materialism she cheapened herself.
Tonight, before the arrival of emergency services, she was berating us for our pride and our materialism.
The powerful impulse for co-operation is materialism based on rapid economic development: the antithesis of Tagore's invocation.
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And his department at NYU has not posted a plaque disavowing his position on the short-comings of materialism.
In recent speeches to graduating students he has counselled against materialism and extolled the virtues of public service.
Making a show of inspired recycling, the clothes in this gallery offer implicit commentary on materialism, consumerism and waste.
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Because materialism ultimately is boring, and consumerism can build a prison of loss.
If there are conceptual confusions in materialism, Mr Searle has not found them.
As for capitalism's wasteful materialism, even Adam Smith had a problem with it.
Protestors from the Left Party are up in arms over the sexism and shallow materialism that they argue Barbie symbolizes.
Nagel has a history of writing critical essays and reviews about the limits of materialism and the deficiencies of the New Atheists.
It appeals to "people who are dismayed with the materialism of the world and are trying to get above it, " he said.
Pushed on the question of marital rape, he insisted that materialism and immorality rather than the subjugation of women were to blame.
Even today, and even in secular western Europe, the bald and confident atheism and materialism of Diderot and Holbach seems mildly shocking.
We pursue wealth while wearing faded jeans and buying old Shaker furniture to prove that we have not been consumed by greed and materialism.
Over the past century, materialism has gained an upper hand among philosophers, and it is certainly the common working-assumption of psychologists, neuroscientists and artificial-intelligence researchers.
" Many support Kilson's view that hip hop is little more "than an updated face on the old-hat, crude, anti-humanistic values of hedonism and materialism.
The little girl rejects materialism and learns self-reliance: Japan's children could do the same, Mr Miyazaki opines, if only they were freed from their gadgets.
Materialism, so initially appealing, is not without problems of its own.
Consumerism and materialism are the perceived sins of a for-profit society.
At the workshop the philosophers and scientists each added his own gloss to neo-Darwinian reductive naturalism or materialistic neo-Darwinian reductionism or naturalistic materialism or reductive determinism.
Indeed, Ferguson neglected to notice that one of the speakers there, Terrence Deacon, is, like Nagel, equally dissatisfied with the limits of materialism as he defined it.
He then formed the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, whose attempts to challenge the materialism and misogyny of rap music included addictive beats and rhymes of their own.
We have become polluted by American culture, contaminated by materialism.
Looking at this reality, most people will conclude that weddings have become a circus for materialism, an excuse for brides to be bitchy, and a total waste of money.
The panpan ladies, with their brightly rouged lips and colourful clothing, had merely been the first to grasp the new ideology materialism that was to become the creed of modern Japan.
The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death, " as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece.
Then, after reading a book on dialectical materialism, Fyodorov understood that a contradiction was at work inside him, and this was why he was sometimes gripped by a dark, alien sadness.
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