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| - | Later on, [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[Pierre Gassendi]] represent the materialist tradition, in opposition to [[René Descartes]]' attempts to provide the [[natural sciences]] with [[dualism|dualist]] foundations. Later are materialist and [[atheism|atheist]] [[Jean Meslier]], [[Julien Offroy de La Mettrie]], Paul-Henri Thiry [[Baron d'Holbach]], [[Denis Diderot]] and other minor French [[The Enlightenment|enlightenment]] thinkers, as well as [[Ludwig Feuerbach]], and, in England, the pedestrian traveller [[John "Walking" Stewart]], whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a [[moral]] dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of [[William Wordsworth]]. | + | During the [[Enlightenment]] [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[Pierre Gassendi]] represent the materialist tradition, in opposition to [[René Descartes]]' attempts to provide the [[natural sciences]] with [[dualism|dualist]] foundations. Later are materialist and [[atheism|atheist]] [[Jean Meslier]], [[Julien Offroy de La Mettrie]], Paul-Henri Thiry [[Baron d'Holbach]], [[Denis Diderot]] and other minor French [[The Enlightenment|enlightenment]] thinkers, as well as [[Ludwig Feuerbach]], and, in England, the pedestrian traveller [[John "Walking" Stewart]], whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a [[moral]] dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of [[William Wordsworth]]. |
| [[Schopenhauer]] wrote that "...materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself." He claimed that an observing subject can only know material objects through the mediation of the brain and its particular organization. The way that the brain knows determines the way that material objects are experienced. "Everything objective, extended, active, and hence everything material, is regarded by materialism as so solid a basis for its explanations that a reduction to this (especially if it should ultimately result in thrust and counter-thrust) can leave nothing to be desired. But all this is something that is given only very indirectly and conditionally, and is therefore only relatively present, for it has passed through the machinery and fabrication of the brain, and hence has entered the forms of time, space, and causality, by virtue of which it is first of all presented as extended in space and operating in time." | [[Schopenhauer]] wrote that "...materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself." He claimed that an observing subject can only know material objects through the mediation of the brain and its particular organization. The way that the brain knows determines the way that material objects are experienced. "Everything objective, extended, active, and hence everything material, is regarded by materialism as so solid a basis for its explanations that a reduction to this (especially if it should ultimately result in thrust and counter-thrust) can leave nothing to be desired. But all this is something that is given only very indirectly and conditionally, and is therefore only relatively present, for it has passed through the machinery and fabrication of the brain, and hence has entered the forms of time, space, and causality, by virtue of which it is first of all presented as extended in space and operating in time." | ||
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| *[[Base materialism]] | *[[Base materialism]] | ||
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- Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
- The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical (also called physicalism).
European Enlightenment
During the Enlightenment Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi represent the materialist tradition, in opposition to René Descartes' attempts to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations. Later are materialist and atheist Jean Meslier, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Denis Diderot and other minor French enlightenment thinkers, as well as Ludwig Feuerbach, and, in England, the pedestrian traveller John "Walking" Stewart, whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth.
Schopenhauer wrote that "...materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself." He claimed that an observing subject can only know material objects through the mediation of the brain and its particular organization. The way that the brain knows determines the way that material objects are experienced. "Everything objective, extended, active, and hence everything material, is regarded by materialism as so solid a basis for its explanations that a reduction to this (especially if it should ultimately result in thrust and counter-thrust) can leave nothing to be desired. But all this is something that is given only very indirectly and conditionally, and is therefore only relatively present, for it has passed through the machinery and fabrication of the brain, and hence has entered the forms of time, space, and causality, by virtue of which it is first of all presented as extended in space and operating in time."
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