materialist

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We are identifying anomalies in the materialist position that must eventually lead to a paradigm shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Rastafari reject materialist values and often practice a strict oneness with nature.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024

In “Garden,” she questions the power she ascribed to materialist totems— like a wedding, a house and a garden— to bring her happiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

Thomas Hobbes, although he was not an atomist, had developed a materialist, Epicurean philosophy which was universally understood to be hostile to religion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton