Meanings (ES + gloss)
materialismo
Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third…
materialismo
The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. ... All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you…
The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had b…
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