materialism
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Example: A central tenet of materialism is that consciousness exists exclusively in the brain.
“The idealism of the 1960s was yielding to the materialism of the 1980s, a new preoccupation with the navel-gazing, ego-stroking life,” Grynbaum writes.
From Los Angeles Times
"All our basic needs are taken care of. It is clean and peaceful – the children can play basketball or go swimming after school. We don't need shopping malls or all that materialism."
From BBC
This is not wisdom but an acceptance of human nature that can lead to a transcendence from materialism.
From Los Angeles Times
But it also explores new themes, including the clash between Western materialism and Eastern spirituality, particularly Buddhism.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
