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, ...

Materialism has deeply infiltrated the lives of young people, shaping their aspirations, behaviors, and self-worth. In an era dominated by consumer culture, social media, and the relentless ...

The rise of social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and many more have created an environment where materialism thrives.

Today's letters: Forget materialism, show compassion Friday, Jan. 10: With the holiday gift-giving season behind us, it's time for acts of kindness, a reader says. You can write to us too, at ...

Jimmy Carter Was Right About Materialism but, Alas, Wrong About Us “Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech.

We have absolutely no reason to believe that, and every reason to believe it’s a product of our physical brains … We have never observed a mind existing independent from a physical brain … I think we ...

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.

Coherent materialism claims that thinking in the real world requires couplings of software and hardware that satisfy constraints of time, space, energy, and history.

New materialism represents a perspective within the social sciences that advocates for a greater focus on matter and materiality (Barad, 2003, 2007; Bennett, 2010). At the core of this approach is the ...

Materialism develops within man's soul when he constantly fixates upon the splendor of his material possessions. But materialism can only exist in your heart if it has "room to breathe." Otherwise, 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 ...

Materialism is often seen as a driving force in today's consumer-driven society. People strive to acquire more possessions, usually equating material wealth ...