Drawing on the ideas of Democritus and the Atomists, he espoused a materialistic philosophy according to which the universe was governed by the laws of chance without the need for divine intervention (see scientific determinism).
Today we've lost our connection to the life-giving properties of seeds as a by-product of our highly industrialized and "materialistic" culture, according to author and Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Llewellyn
Reflecting on the song, Madonna told author J. Randy Taraborrelli: Academics analyzed the usage of the term material as odd because, according to them, materialistic is the correct word.
According to Epicurus's materialistic philosophy, the entire universe was composed exclusively of atoms and void, and so even the gods were subject to natural laws.
Residents of wealthy communities are prone to be more materialistic, spend compulsively, and save less, according to a study published today in the Journal of Consumer Culture.
According to the report, they are materialistic and strongly individualized, and tend not to welcome change.
Malbranche, Leibniz, and Berkeley — again, according to Jacobi — had recognized this materialistic implication of Spinoza's thought, and, in order to counteract it, they had all taken the obvious step of declaring 'extension' itself to be just an appearance.
According to Leibniz, perceptions cannot be explained in mechanical or materialistic terms.
According to Whitehead, recognition that the world is organic rather than materialistic is essential for anyone wanting to develop a comprehensive account of nature, and this change in viewpoint can result as easily from attempts to understand human psychology and teleology as from attempts to understand modern physics.
"There one finds, even among groups usually identified as materialistic — the media, entertainment, business, politics, artists, writers — an undeniable openness to the divine," he continued, according to an English translation of the speech, which he delivered in Italian at the closed-door gathering of the church's top prelates.
