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Name 3 advocates of Materialism.
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-Thomas Hobbes (most influential)
-Democritus -Aristole -Karl Marx |
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Name a 2 problems with Materialism.
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-It doesn't account for or
spirit,consciousness,beliefs, desires, intentions, and sensory experiences -Denies the existance of God and the soul -Scientist are still trying find the invisible elemental particle that makes up matter -The notion that true happiness and success comes from material things |
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Name a philosophy that is opposite of Materialism
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-Idealism (everything in the world is spiritual, and that the world and even matter itself are mere conceptions or ideas in the thinking subject)
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True or false:
All the properties of things, including persons, are reducible to properties of matter. |
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True or False:
For a Materialist the Mind DOES exist |
Some materialist deny the existance of ANYTHING mental
or others equate the mind and the brain |
