The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser, for example, had a major impact on my thinking. I suspected that the harmful effects of materialism likely spilled over to the areas of work and family.

He says: "To me materialism is the foundation of the edifice of human essence and knowledge; but to me it is not what it is to the physiologist, to the natural scientists in the narrower sense, for ...

Materialism, the idea that happiness comes from acquiring possessions and wealth, can be a major roadblock to a fulfilling and lasting marriage. While a certain level of financial security is ...

Historical materialism is an essential feature not only of the Marxism of the traditional workers movement but also of Marxist-Leninist ideas. A critique of historical materialism explains some of the ...

Comments by two prominent Nigerians last week highlighted the materialism that has permeated the nation’s soul. Popular author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, ...

A new study from Brigham Young University finds that materialism is harmful to marriage, especially if both partners rate high in materialism.

Materialism, is a causal theory of scientific reality. It is the argument that when we pronounce anything in our sense-experience to be real we imply an independent cause of it.

Thus, for example, Sir James Jeans concludes : “Modern physics is not altogether antagonistic to an objective idealism like that of Hegel”*. He further contends that the new physics has an ...

By Vinay Kumar Dutta During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people may be rethinking how to converge materialism with spiritualism. Why is this thought pervading in their? Are they intimidated, or ...