Sentence examples for ancient materialistic from inspiring English sources

For some people, this "link" between Darwinism and moral decline is very real.7 In his book Moral Darwinism, Benjamin Wiker traces the metaphysical foundations of Darwinism and the moral decline in modern society to ancient materialistic philosophies (Wiker 2002).

In the compound in Kathmandu, under the stern tutelage of the mystical trio, the doctor must learn to stifle his ego and submit to the force of ancient wisdom — and he must shed his boundless materialistic confidence in reason, science, and the purely practical causality of physical things, and give himself over to the spirit world.

Because this seems to make the soul into a property of the body, it led many interpreters, both ancient and modern, to interpret his theory as materialistic.

Suspecting that the Roman Academy and its founder, the Italian humanist Julius Pomponius Laetus, were opposing Christian ideals and endorsing a materialistic vision of life inspired by an admiration for the ancient world, Paul dissolved the academy and arrested its members in February 1468, subjecting one of its leading humanists, Bartolomeo Platina, to torture on additional charges of conspiracy.

The Aquarians elevated distrust of authority to the status of dogma and "ransack[ed] ancient faiths for useful jargon" that might justify "getting high, getting laid and getting out of the materialistic rat race".

Possibly the age of economics will be recorded as an interregnum to build the materialistic foundation to take humanity into an age of non-materialistic values as was the case for many ancient cultures.

Or materialistic.

Less materialistic.

Young people are materialistic.

I'm not materialistic.

She isn't materialistic.