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In philosophy, antimaterialism is any of several metaphysical or religious beliefs that are specifically opposed to materialism, the notion that only matter exists. These beliefs include: Immaterialism, a philosophy branching from George Berkeley of which his idealism is a type
Shantarakshita and Adi Shankara use the word lokayata to mean materialism, [30] [31] with the latter using the term Lokāyata, not Charvaka. [ 32 ] In Silāṅka's commentary on Sūtra-kṛtāṅgna , the oldest Jain Āgama Prakrt literature, he has used four terms for Cārvāka viz. (1) Bṛhaspatya (2) Lokāyata (3) Bhūtavādin (4) Vāmamārgin.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
Jean Meslier (French:; also Mellier; 15 June 1664 [1] – 17 June 1729) was a French Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism. Described by the author as his "testament" to his parishioners, the text criticizes and denounces all religions.
The sociological theory of postmaterialism was developed in the 1970s by Ronald Inglehart.After extensive survey research, Inglehart postulated that the Western societies under the scope of his survey were undergoing transformation of individual values, switching from materialist values, emphasizing economic and physical security, to a new set of postmaterialist values, which instead ...
Adorno's work has had a large impact on cultural criticism, particularly through Adorno's analysis of popular culture and the culture industry. [10] Adorno's account of dialectics has influenced Joel Kovel, [11] the sociologist and philosopher John Holloway, the anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan, [12] the sociologist Boike Rehbein, [13] and the Austrian musicologist Sebastian Wedler.
Andy Warhol’s Factory made a fortune off other people’s work. Now desperate artists are accusing generative AI of supercharging that model
Contradiction within an object fuels its development and evolution. Hegel developed a dialectical idealism before Marx and Engels combined dialectics with materialism, and Lenin and Stalin further developed it. With dialectical materialism we can look at the concrete differences between objects and further understand their growth. [7]