Such materialist tastes, however incongruous in a country where more than a quarter of young children are chronically malnourished, appear to reflect a changing reality in North Korea.
The problem is, of course, living as we do in the context that ultimately offers you as the end goal through materialist and rational analysis that you might become just this type of a person in this type of a society.
I knew right away that this sort of, you know, secular materialist culture was going to tell him a big story about not having been wanted and why did that mother leave you.
But Marx was a historical materialist, so in his view, even in feudalism, classes weren’t really defined by laws, they were actually defined by their place in the relations of production.
I mean, I can make a materialist argument that, yeah, the odds are low that this type of thing would have happened, but there doesn't have to be a metaphysical component.
Skovorodnikoff was a materialist, a Darwinist, and considered every manifestation of abstract morality, or, worse still, piety, not only as contemptible and absurd but as an affront to his person.
In particular, the Paduans were flirting with materialist ideas about the soul, and like plenty of other philosophers of the era, they were fascinated by the topic of spontaneous generation.
People sometimes ask me this question, and I'm wondering about that myself, to what extent the story that I'm presenting is sort of like historically materialist.
On this question of the study of delusions, the practical effect of the modern theories, as Dr. Hart points out, is emancipation from the materialist method.