Materialistic
[mə,tɪərɪə'lɪstɪk] or [mə'tɪrɪə'lɪstɪk]
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Materialistical
Typist: Meg
Examples
- Turning their attention away from the romanticism of history, the materialistic philosophy has helped them to look at realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He founded it on a general philosophy of society which is known as the materialistic conception of history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Even if there isn't supposed to be any such thing as love in a purely materialistic conception of society? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When it is measured by tangible external products, and not by the achieving of a distinctively valuable experience, it becomes materialistic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thus the so-called materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx is not by any means identical with the theories one hears among Marxian socialists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Meg