“The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.” KnowsMindArtPhilosophyWholeProblemBodySufferingEvilMoralPracticeSeeingParticularHabitDivorceSeparationDiscussionThemeMaterialismAffectedDivisionMind And BodyMind BodySplittingAloofness Author:John Dewey
“The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.” MatterPhilosophyChanceResultsViewsCreationTheoryEvolutionPureCosmosMaterialismMaterialistic Author:Pope John Paul II
“My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.” KnowsMatterPhilosophySpiritOppositesFundamentalsMaterialismAbsurdityAxiomsSpiritualism Author:Thomas Huxley
“The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.” HumansPhilosophyBodyLife IsHumanityHuman BeingsAnimalAcceptingMoralLife PhilosophyBecomingMachinesMaterialismInherentPerilConvenienceImplicationsDisadvantagesDisruptive Author:Aldous Huxley
“An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.” MatterPhilosophyOrderGoldenAbstractMaterialismIdolsConcreteBiblicalCalves Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.” HumansPhilosophyForceSourceBlindHuman LifeMaterialismNaturalismForces Of Nature Author:Nancy Pearcey