Darwin himself was deeply troubled by his materialist thoughts and what they meant.
Mr Solzhenitsyn is an old-fashioned, God-fearing romantic: anti-industrial, anti-materialist, anti-Enlightenment, and against what he sees as the deadening excesses of rationalism.
If it is, it may prove more palatable to some people than the current interpretation of the biological world as ultimately materialist and purposeless.
She gives us a new kind of feminist and materialist realism, with an emphasis on repetitive work, much of it done by the women.
Worse still, how could the business-minded, property-owning, moneylending materialist that emerges from the documentary scraps, be the same man as the poet of the plays?
But he said people should not confuse the desire to get out of poverty and get a better standard of living with being a gross materialist.
Last Fall, Thomas Nagel, the respected philosopher who teaches at NYU, published Mind and Cosmos, with the provocative subtitle, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False.
Set loose on a seemingly boundless field of possibility, they soon see that the transient, meaningless features of materialist living and petty competition impose their own painful constraints on achievement and satisfaction.
First, call me a traditionalist, call me a scientific-materialist, call me whatever you want, but I wanted whoever was going to guide me out of this mess to have two very simple letters after his or her name: M and D.
Their story across both books has as many interpretations as characters: Stuart (pedestrian materialist or honest realist) is the victim (all's fair in love and war) of his best friend Oliver (pretentious parasite or inspired romantic) who steals (wins) his wife, Gillian, and goes to live with her in France.
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