Materialism (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Constantin Gutberlet · 1913
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Materialism holds that matter alone is real, that all events come from matter at work, and thus denies God and the soul. It stands against views that call all things spirit and matter mere thought. Materialism is older than Spiritualism if philosophy begins in Greece, though ancient Indian thought was idealistic, with Brahma alone real.
In Greece the first thinkers leaned this way, and Socrates's school pushed back. Lucretius gave Epicurus's version poetic voice. Christianity dammed materialism mightily, until Renaissance humanists revived antiquity. In Germany Leibniz assailed it vigorously, while Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling called matter a mind's projection. Natural science's triumphs then bolstered materialism, and Darwinism seemed to settle design questions.
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| CREATOR | Constantin Gutberlet |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |