KnowraMaterialismLinked fromLinked fromThe 28 pages that link to Materialism, each with the reason it gives.All 28Broader topic 1Related 6Narrower topic 8Compared with 13Historical materialismNarrower topic: Historical materialism applies a materialist approach to social and historical explanation.VitalismCompared with: Materialism rejects the extra nonphysical agency central to vitalist doctrine.German idealismCompared with: It reverses idealism’s emphasis on mind, reason, or spirit as fundamental to reality.IdealismCompared with: It reverses idealism’s priority between mind and the physical.TranscendentalismCompared with: The movement opposed accounts of reality that left no fundamental place for spirit.Denis DiderotNarrower topic: Diderot’s arguments helped develop a distinctive Enlightenment form of materialism.AfterlifeCompared with: It commonly frames consciousness as dependent on the living body, challenging survival after death.Dialectical materialismNarrower topic: This framework gives material conditions explanatory priority.OntologyCompared with: It offers a rival account of the most fundamental kinds of being.DemocritusNarrower topic: Democritus’s atomism is an early and influential form of materialist explanation.LucretiusNarrower topic: Lucretius’s account of bodies and void became a lasting model of materialist thought.Absolute idealismCompared with: Materialism reverses absolute idealism’s priority of intelligible thought over matter.Western philosophyBroader topic: Materialism contests idealist explanations of mind and the basic nature of reality.Nikolay ChernyshevskyRelated: His materialist outlook informed his criticism of religious and idealist explanations.Soul (spirituality)Compared with: Materialist accounts deny that a person needs an immaterial essence.G. W. F. HegelCompared with: Marx’s materialist reversal of Hegel makes their different accounts of historical change visible.Russian nihilist movementRelated: Many Russian nihilists favored materialist explanations over religious or metaphysical ones.Emil du Bois-ReymondCompared with: His mechanistic physiology supported physical explanations while his caution about consciousness resisted simple reduction.Julien Offray de La MettrieNarrower topic: La Mettrie extended this view to thought, treating mental activity as a bodily process.Modern philosophyCompared with: Materialists rejected the immaterial mind central to many modern rationalist systems.Patricia ChurchlandRelated: Her account treats mental capacities as dependent on the brain rather than a separate substance.Matter (philosophy)Related: Materialism makes matter foundational, though philosophers disagree about what matter is.Michel OnfrayNarrower topic: Onfray’s account of human life rejects a separate, immortal soul.Claude Adrien HelvétiusNarrower topic: His account of mind rejected an immaterial soul as the source of ideas.HylozoismRelated: Hylozoism offers a distinctive materialism by treating matter as intrinsically active or alive.Kardecist SpiritismCompared with: Materialism rejects the independent spirits that form the basis of Spiritist explanations.Mario BungeRelated: Bunge defended a contemporary materialism that could accommodate mind, society, and emergent properties.PlatoCompared with: Materialist accounts oppose Plato’s claim that intelligible Forms are more fundamental than sensible things.
KnowraMaterialismLinked fromLinked fromThe 28 pages that link to Materialism, each with the reason it gives.All 28Broader topic 1Related 6Narrower topic 8Compared with 13Historical materialismNarrower topic: Historical materialism applies a materialist approach to social and historical explanation.VitalismCompared with: Materialism rejects the extra nonphysical agency central to vitalist doctrine.German idealismCompared with: It reverses idealism’s emphasis on mind, reason, or spirit as fundamental to reality.IdealismCompared with: It reverses idealism’s priority between mind and the physical.TranscendentalismCompared with: The movement opposed accounts of reality that left no fundamental place for spirit.Denis DiderotNarrower topic: Diderot’s arguments helped develop a distinctive Enlightenment form of materialism.AfterlifeCompared with: It commonly frames consciousness as dependent on the living body, challenging survival after death.Dialectical materialismNarrower topic: This framework gives material conditions explanatory priority.OntologyCompared with: It offers a rival account of the most fundamental kinds of being.DemocritusNarrower topic: Democritus’s atomism is an early and influential form of materialist explanation.LucretiusNarrower topic: Lucretius’s account of bodies and void became a lasting model of materialist thought.Absolute idealismCompared with: Materialism reverses absolute idealism’s priority of intelligible thought over matter.Western philosophyBroader topic: Materialism contests idealist explanations of mind and the basic nature of reality.Nikolay ChernyshevskyRelated: His materialist outlook informed his criticism of religious and idealist explanations.Soul (spirituality)Compared with: Materialist accounts deny that a person needs an immaterial essence.G. W. F. HegelCompared with: Marx’s materialist reversal of Hegel makes their different accounts of historical change visible.Russian nihilist movementRelated: Many Russian nihilists favored materialist explanations over religious or metaphysical ones.Emil du Bois-ReymondCompared with: His mechanistic physiology supported physical explanations while his caution about consciousness resisted simple reduction.Julien Offray de La MettrieNarrower topic: La Mettrie extended this view to thought, treating mental activity as a bodily process.Modern philosophyCompared with: Materialists rejected the immaterial mind central to many modern rationalist systems.Patricia ChurchlandRelated: Her account treats mental capacities as dependent on the brain rather than a separate substance.Matter (philosophy)Related: Materialism makes matter foundational, though philosophers disagree about what matter is.Michel OnfrayNarrower topic: Onfray’s account of human life rejects a separate, immortal soul.Claude Adrien HelvétiusNarrower topic: His account of mind rejected an immaterial soul as the source of ideas.HylozoismRelated: Hylozoism offers a distinctive materialism by treating matter as intrinsically active or alive.Kardecist SpiritismCompared with: Materialism rejects the independent spirits that form the basis of Spiritist explanations.Mario BungeRelated: Bunge defended a contemporary materialism that could accommodate mind, society, and emergent properties.PlatoCompared with: Materialist accounts oppose Plato’s claim that intelligible Forms are more fundamental than sensible things.