Sentence examples for materialistic in contrast from inspiring English sources

Rastafarianism rejects Babylon, an idea that western civilisation is corrupt and materialistic in contrast to a spiritual Zion.

In contrast to these materialistic views, Aristotle understood all natural things, not only living things, as being imperfect actualisations of different fixed natural possibilities, known as "forms," "ideas," or (in Latin translations) "species".

In the essay, 'Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia' (1929), Surrealist experience provides an example of a "profane illumination", which in contrast to the sacred and moralistic kind found in religion was guided by a political and a "materialistic, anthropological inspiration" (SW 2, 209).

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In contrast to the situation described by Rice et al. (2010) for the U.S., in other Western societies believers can accept a materialistic explanation for the emergence of life and a Darwinian explanation for the diversity of the biosphere, even if they assume the existence of a divine creator that stipulated the natural laws.

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In contrast to other philosophers, such as Karl Marx or John Locke, Aflaq's ideological view of the world makes no clear stand on the materialistic or socioeconomic behavior of humanity.

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