Sentence examples for materialistic from inspiring English sources

Such physiological investigation into the sense organs may initially look favourable for the materialists, in that it promises to give us a materialistic account of our knowledge of the world.

In the classical and mediaeval periods, it was the intellect that was thought to be most obviously resistant to a materialistic account: from Descartes on, the main stumbling block to materialist monism was supposed to be 'consciousness', of which phenomenal consciousness or sensation came to be considered as the paradigm instance.

By 1933, Adams was writing in the New York Times of the way the American dream had been hijacked: "Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims.

Christmas is a time to show your love in a totally materialistic way – with gifts.

Our political apathy, our materialistic obsession with property ownership, our disinclination to pursue alternative lifestyles all explain why communes and squats are in decline.

They're self-interested, they're materialistic, they're insular and they would literally rather go to the toilet on themselves than share anything of theirs with anyone.

I'd convinced myself that I was not particularly materialistic.

At first glance crassly materialistic, this equation can also describe Buddha-like levels of serenity.

There is a grain of truth in the conventional view that the Czechs are more rational and materialistic than the pious, passionate Slovaks.

This is an ambitious book, offering an analysis of the failures of academic economics and a call for a more inclusive, less materialistic society.

It is huge, diverse, secular (though its people are religious), materialistic, largely tolerant and proudly democratic.