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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Materialism (5324 words) |
 | Materialism in the narrow sense, that is the denial of the soul. |
| Materialism, must deny the immortality of the soul, since in the dissolution of the body the soul must also perish, and he labours to no effect when he tries to bolster up the doctrine of survival with all kinds of fantastic ideas. |
| Materialism." What he says indeed of the relaxation of philosophical effort is no longer true today; on the contrary, seldom has there been so much philosophizing by the qualified and the unqualified as at the beginning of the present and the end of the last century. |
| Materialism (613 words) |
| Materialism can refer either to the simple preoccupation with the material world, as opposed to intellectual or spiritual concepts, or to the theory that physical matter is all there is. This theory is far more than a simple focus on material possessions. |
| Materialism as a philosophy is held by those who maintain that existence is explainable solely in material terms, with no accounting of spirit or consciousness. |
| Materialism, at its simpler level, involves the focus on material "things" as opposed to that which is spiritual or intellectual in nature. |
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