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| | Beyond Creation vs. Evolution: Taking the Full Measure of the Materialist Challenge |
 | | Related to this is a second point at which the materialist worldview clashes with the teaching of Scripture. | | | The final, and undoubtedly the main, point at which the materialist apologetic challenges the authority of Scripture is epistemological. | | | In our day a sustained effort is underway from within the evolutionary camp to exalt the evolutionary and materialist paradigm, to eradicate from the public consciousness any lingering notions about the broad scope of Biblical authority, and to dispense with everything other than a merely personal need for God and religion. |
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| | The American Enterprise: The Materialist Superstition |
| | Desperate to reassemble the shattered grail of faith, the public clutched at a new pagan polytheism: Materialist intellectuals widely worshipped the god of the machine, artists reveled in the god of the senses, and churches retreated to a pre-industrial vision of an ecological Eden. | | | Since man subsists not on his practical possibilities but on his ultimate philosophies, this sort of materialist determinism soon became the implicit religion of science and the profound enemy of all other religion and morality. | | | Newton was himself a deist, but he had a vision of the world that was profoundly materialistic and determinist. |
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| | Materialism in the West - Part I |
| | Materialists can be found in all classes, and likewise there are theistic, spiritual and metaphysical inclinations in all classes and sections, especially among the learned. | | | At times one sees two mathematicians, one of whom believes in God and religion while the other is a materialist, or for that matter two physicists, two biologists, or two astronomers, one with a materialist and the other with a theistic bent of mind. | | | These individuals debated with Muslims, with the adherents of other religions, and with believers in the existence of God, and presented their arguments and raised objections concerning the arguments of the monotheists. |
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| | Phenomenal Concepts and the Materialist Constraint |
| | Recently, a number of materialists who do grant the existence of the explanatory gap have taken up the challenge to demonstrate that the gap does not constitute a genuine challenge to materialism; it can indeed, they claim, be explained in materialistically respectable terms. | | | Acquaintance itself is not given a materialist explanation, but appealing to it, let us say, removes the mystery of the gap with respect to phenomenal properties. | | | So, since the challenge that materialists say they can meet is itself to provide an explanation - in this case, of the fact that there is an explanatory gap between the physical and the phenomenal - it’s a perfectly legitimate objection to point out that they haven’t provided the requisite explanation. |
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| | Materialist ‘defence’ of Bible fails |
| | If one starts with the materialist assumptions that there is no Creator God and no supernatural, one can never come to an understanding of the truth. | | | The group of disciples present included Peter and James and John (John 21:2) who had been professional fishermen on the Sea of Galilee all their working lives, while Jesus was (from a materialist’s point of view) merely a carpenter. | | | By definition, miracles are not amenable to scientific testing, and so we rely on eyewitness testimony for verification, and at Answers in Genesis we regard the eyewitness accounts of which the Bible is composed to be of the highest integrity. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Materialism |
| | Empedocles was not a thorough-going Materialist, although be regarded the four elements with love and hatred as the formative principles of the universe, and refused to recognize a spiritual Creator of the world. | | | Yet this exaggerated Spiritualism and Idealism agrees with the fundamental dogma of the Materialists in denying the substantiality and immortality of the soul. | | | Although officially socialists disown their hatred of religion, the rejection of the higher destiny of man and the consequent falling back on the material order serve them most efficiently in stirring up the deluded and discontented masses. |
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| | How to Sink a Battleship: A call to separate materialist philosophy |
| | When science aspires to establish a ruling philosophy for all aspects of life, and to replace God as the basis of rationality and human unity, it has to resort to the methods Paul Feyerabend condemned rather than the humility that Richard Feynman commended. | | | One by one the great prophets of materialism have been shown to be false prophets and have fallen aside. | | | It follows from Dickerson's first rule that at the end of the day you have to come in without a materialist bias and analyze what's been happening. |
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| | Marxist / Materialist Feminism |
| | Rosemary Hennessy (1993) traces the origins of Materialist Feminism in the work of British and French feminists who preferred the term materialist feminism to Marxist feminism because, in their view, Marxism had to be transformed to be able to explain the sexual division of labor (Beechey, 1977: 61, cited in Kuhn and Wolpe, 1978: 8). | | | The answers to these questions are political and will come from feminists practices and dialogue and from the effects of the intensification of capitalist rule upon both first and third world peoples. | | | Materialist Feminism, as a reading practice, is also a way of explaining or re-writing and making sense of the world and, as such, influences reality through the knowledges it produces about the subject and her social context. |
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| | Paradigm Shifts and Aeonics |
| | The transcedentalist has faith in his god self, the materialist has faith in his reasoning self and the selves of the magician have faith in each other. | | | Ultimately it's a matter of faith and taste. | | | From the standpoint of the magical view, the assorted selves of the transcendendatilst have ascribed a grossly exaggerated importance to one or a few of the selves which they call God or gods, whilst the materialist has attempted to make all his selves subordinate to the self that does the rational thinking. |
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| | Feminist Theory and Criticism: 4. Materialist Feminisms |
| | In keeping with subsequent developments within the women's movement, the materialist feminist problematic has extended to questions of race; nationality or ethnicity; lesbianism and sexuality; cultural identity, including religion; and the very definition of power. | | | Some of the most important U.S. contributions to materialist feminist criticism have come from socialists and feminists working directly with the interrelated literary problems of sexuality, racial difference, the politics of language, and postcoloniality, questions barely addressed by U.K. materialist feminists. | | | Not all race-sensitive U.S. feminist critics have been sympathetic to recent developments in literary theory, however; Barbara Christian (whose work is included by Newton and Rosenfelt) has raised her influential voice against "theory," by which she means poststructuralism, in "The Race for Theory" (1987; Gender and Theory, ed. |
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| | Glossary of Terms: Ma |
| | Further Reading: Marx’s essay on French Materialism and Communism in The Holy Family as well as the epoch-making outline in Chapter one of The German Ideology, Materialism and Idealism, and Lenin's concise explanation, and the definition of Materialist Dialectics. | | | See also Hegel's definition in his critique of Empiricism. | | | Stalin explained that Lenin had shown through his practice, a particular way to establish a socialist government in Russia; thus that practice substantiated Lenin's theory as true in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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| | Historical materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | That is, human history is reduced to biological factors, or the hand of God is seen in the course of history. | | | Engels, who was the first great "Marxist systematiser", tried to take a nuanced approach in his writings and popularise the materialist approach without vulgarisation. | | | In the early 21st century, the main attacks on the materialist interpretation of history come from theorists of sociobiology, creationism and intelligent design. |
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| | Materialist Conception of History |
| | This observation is intended especially for those who applying a learned ignorance, when they are not humbugs, charlatans, or amiable dilletanti, give to the doctrine of critical communism precursors, patrons, allies and masters of every class without any respect for common sense and the most vulgar chronology. | | | Or, again they try to bring back our materialistic conception of history into the theory of universal evolution which to the minds of many is but a new metaphor of a new metaphysics. | | | This had its center in London and numerous branches on the continent; it had behind it a life and a development of its own. |
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| | 20th WCP: Schellingianism & Postmodernity: Towards a Materialist Naturphilosophie |
| | Named by turns das Regellose (the unruly), evil, the basis, the primal chaos or ataxia of forces, this "irreducible remainder that cannot be resolved into reason" (1989: 34), this point marks the synthesis between mind and nature as antinomy (to be resolved, in concert with Kant, through the practical effort of will) and rulelessness, respectively. | | | To take the materialist route cannot therefore be a metaphysical error, but can only be a practical one, an error which Schelling calls the "exalt[ation] of the basis over the cause" (1989: 41). | | | Andrew Bowie's recent Schelling and Modern European Philosophy (1993) claims Schelling, and Schellingian idealism, as a "critique of reflective reason", which, throughout that work, he brings to bear on the avatars of French post-modernism (or as his mentor Manfred Frank has it, "neo-structuralism"). |
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| | Selwyn R. Cudjoe - A Materialist Reading |
| | Reactions to Naipaul often seem easily divided along political and/or geographic lines; conservatives from the Western world love him; and leftists from the rest of the world hate him. | | | By calling his method "materialist," Cudjoe automatically invokes a number of assumptions about the type of study he will be conducting. | | | When Selwyn Cudjoe subtitles his study of Naipaul "A Materialist Reading," another way of saying "A Marxist Reading," his stance towards Naipaul should be easy to predict. |
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| | For the question she asks, then answers in the negative, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” is itself a misplaced question for a materialist postcolonial critique. | | | To pose the problem of the subaltern in the terms, “can she speak?” is simply to reify the project of giving a voice to the Other as the primary political agenda and to mistake a discursive empowerment for a social and economic enablement. | | | When an Indian child is forty days old, she/he is initiated into the community in a collective ceremony that locates her/him in the history and knowledges of the people. |
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| | Amalek and the Natural Order (the materialist paradigm) |
| | Deut 25:19 When the L-RD your G-d gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. | | | The national mission to destroy Amalek and eradicate its memory is one of the most powerful and enigmatic themes in Judaism and ties beautifully into the mind/matter question. | | | Once material need is eliminated, the natural order, desire-to-give-in-order-to-receive, will be likewise eliminated since, with material possessions completely devalued, there will be nothing of a material nature left to cling to or fight for. |
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| | Within the tradition of Marxism, these two questions have been addressed more specifically as (a) the problems of explaining the | | | However, there is evidence that one of the 'inventors' of the materialist theory of history was very conscious of the role that communication can play in historical transition. | | | In summary then, an adequate, materialist theory of history from a communications perspective, would see the wider mode of production incorporate the mode of communication into itself. |
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| | The End of Materialist Science |
| | The fundamental laws of physics were to provide a scheme of things at once materialistic, complete, and simple. | | | But even if this extravagant and silly claim is accepted at face value, no one suggests that theories of evolution are in any sense a fundamental answer to Paley's question. | | | Darwin's theory of evolution is widely thought to provide purely a materialistic explanation for the emergence and development of life. |
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| | Custom Writing on materialist theory |
| | Materialist Theory For many centuries, people have pondered upon the question if there is a relation between what we think and what we do physically. | | | Materialists have a very sound belief in the physical and are so deeply rooted in science that it will take considerable new developments to prove them incorrect. | | | What can a mind do without a body to experience its sensations and react to them; nothing. |
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| | Renaissance Forum: v2no1 (Spring 1997): David Siar |
| | e., traditional and neo-Marxists, cultural materialists, new historicists, and materialist feminists), important differences among these critics, and some of the theoretical and practical problems with which materialists have grappled in the recent past and which will no doubt continue to preoccupy them in the future. | | | This last point raises the question of what other kinds of histories might be written about the criticism collected in this volume. | | | Jameson is diplomatically re-stating the well-known fact that traditional Marxists and what Kamps calls their 'poststructuralist offshoots' (i.e., materialists of various stripes who have eschewed traditional Marxism's 'fierce emphasis on economic determination' [4]) have some very different (theoretical, methodological, and political) agendas. |
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| | For Marx [Part 2] |
| | I shall call Theory (with a capital T), general theory, that is, the Theory of practice in general, itself elaborated on the basis of the Theory of existing theoretical practices (of the sciences), which transforms into 'knowledges' (scientific truths) the ideological product of existing 'empirical' practices (the concrete activity of men). | | | So theory is important to practice in a double sense: for 'theory' is important to its own practice, directly. | | | So we shall start by considering practices in which the Marxist dialectic as such is in action: Marxist theoretical practice and Marxist political practice. |
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| | The ABC of Materialist Dialectics |
| | There is place within this system for neither God, nor Devil, nor immortal soul, nor eternal norms of laws and morals. | | | Marx, who in distinction from Darwin was a conscious dialectician, discovered a basis for the scientific classification of human societies in the development of their productive forces and the structure of the relations of ownership which constitute the anatomy of society. | | | We call our dialectic, materialist, since its roots are neither in heaven nor in the depths of our 'free will', but in objective reality, in nature. |
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| | Postmodernism: Materialist? |
| | So when you ask if a theory is materialist, do you mean in this sociological sense or in the traditional philosophical sense of ontologically materialist or even (if this makes terminological sense) epistemologically materialist (i.e. | | | That is, the materialism or idealism of a theory does not lie solely in whether it declares matter as the fundmental ontological reality, but the entire structure of the theory determines whether it is concretely materialist or an idealist construction. | | | There is yet another sense (not yet discussed here) of the traditional Marxist use of "materialism" and "idealism", which has a long history but is still not recognized within western academe. |
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| | Gender, sexuality, etc. are constructed within the relations of production-- separating gender from class, for example, serves only to fragment the social, to 'mask' the metanarrative or "knowledge of social totality" (87). | | | For historical materialists, then, capitalism replaces patriarchy as the source of oppressive power and hierarchal domination. | | | A historical materialist feminism operates on the theory that gender, race, and other possible sites of subordination or oppression "are, in fact, related to each other, at a higher level of generality, as part of a historical and social totality" (85). |
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| | Psycoloquy 11(100): Materialist Autonomy |
| | The book also displays antagonism to the empiricism that dominated psychological ideas and practice for most of the 20th century. | | | I am grateful for these additions to the story in the book but I am rather sorry that Beninger's views about certain themes in The Autonomous Brain (Milner, 1999) that I thought might be controversial are too similar to mine to provoke much debate. | | | Beninger is certainly correct in detecting a materialist outlook. |
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| | Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: "On the Dialectico-Materialist Type of Rationality" by Jindrich Zeleny |
| | The mode of thought, the kernel of which is materialist dialectics, is more objective than the previous approaches, mainly because it joins the general conception of the process character of all being with the discovery of the practical basis of thought and humanity. | | | I. Lenin’s comments on philosophical views of some excellent natural scientists that they "conceive the idea of change in a rather restrictive way". | | | For the sake of brevity here and below, the term "new thought" or "the new mode of thought" will always be an abbreviation meaning "the mode of thought, the kernel of which is materialist dialectics". |
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| | John Zuern: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation |
| | This tendency to generalize doesn't only undermine the kinds of "medium-specific analyses" of electronic texts that Hayles has exemplified in her work on hypertext fiction, it also obscures a category of materiality that has traditionally been the focus of materialist critical approaches: the category of relations of production. | | | Writers of codes, whether at Microsoft or at the Multimedia Art Asia-Pacific Festival, are producers of culture, agents in the still-unfolding history of what Manuel Castells has described as a global, and profoundly stratified, network society. | | | This essay argues for greater critical attention to the impact of particular development environments and programming languages on the aesthetic forms of new media productions. |
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| | Susanne Soederberg: "Political Restructuring of Exploitation . . ." |
| | Editors' note: minor changes to the introduction of this essay were made on 9-4-04. | | | We avoid the error of explaining neoliberalism by way of its generic and surface appearances, such as, liberalization, privatization and deregulation. | | | The key issue for the government was how to deal with the ensuing struggles within this configuration in the absence of a political and materialist basis of a social pact. |
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| | Karl Kautsky, The Materialist Conception of History |
| | John Kautsky, the grandson of Karl Kautsky, the `Pope of Marxism', has rendered an immense service in presenting this book in a form that English readers can use. | | | In an industrialised country, it is impossible to get hold of such a large number of scoundrels in the prime of life for capitalistic purposes' (p.394). | | | Karl Kautsky, The Materialist Conception of History, translated by Raymond Meyer and John H Kautsky, annotated and introduced by John Kautsky, Yale University Press, New T1aven, 19Hs pp.558, £35.00 |
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| | The Good Person of Szechwan The Materialist Girl: The Good Person of Szechwan and Making Gender Strange |
| | Like most social activists who believe in theater as an instrument of change, feminists have both claimed and rejected Bertolt Brecht, joining in the critical tug-of-war that has characterized his reception in America since the Theatre Union introduced him to this country with its ill-conceived (and disastrous) production of The Mother in 1935. | | | The Materialist Girl: The Good Person of Szechwan and Making Gender Strange |
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| | Zero News Datapool, MANUEL DE LANDA, THE GEOLOGY OF MORALS |
| | It indeed points towards a new form of materialist philosophy in which raw matter-energy through a variety of self-organizing processes and an intense power of morphogenesis, generates all the structures that surround us. | | | Furthermore, the structures generated cease to be the primary reality, and matter-energy flows now acquire this special status. |
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| | Why did Marx contend that the existence of the State is inseparable from the existence | | | If society has always been class-divided; if males have always dominated over females; if acquisitiveness, possession of private property including slavery is instinctive; if all this is rooted in human nature, then the ideals of socialism are utopian and unattainable. | | | THE MATERIALIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY - PRE-POLITICAL SOCIETY |
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| | Another name for the "materialist conception of history" formulated by Marx and Engels, 'Historical Materialism' was coined by Engels, and later popularised by Kautsky and Plekhanov. |
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| | Re: More Holes in the Materialist's bucket by Aparthib Zaman |
| | I will arrange my response in matched section in the following format (There are 10 such matched sections): | | | The materialists are not investigating the paranormal phenomena, they are helping in the cover-up and the reason is obvious. | | | Re: More Holes in the Materialist's bucket by Aparthib Zaman |
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| | Silicon Valley: Tech mecca or materialist wasteland? CNET News.com |
| | Notably absent in the research, which in many cases relied on data that was at least 10 years old, was a discussion of money as a motivational force in the Silicon Valley. | | | "Valley of the Dollars" in September 1999, when a New York-based writer penned a scathing critique of the increasingly materialist and consumerist culture emerging in the former hippie haunts of San Francisco. | | | Also missing from the research was the fact that the technology industry--and Silicon Valley as a whole--is grossly skewed toward men. |
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| | Marxist & Materialist Theory |
| | Or they look back to an earlier, implausible, period of materialist determinism as an excuse to ignore more recent work. |
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