KnowraMaterialismLinked fromLinked fromThe 28 pages that link to Materialism, each with the reason it gives.All 28Broader topic 1Related 6Narrower topic 8Compared with 13VitalismCompared 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.AfterlifeCompared with: It commonly frames consciousness as dependent on the living body, challenging survival after death.OntologyCompared with: It offers a rival account of the most fundamental kinds of being.Absolute idealismCompared with: Materialism reverses absolute idealism’s priority of intelligible thought over matter.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.Emil du Bois-ReymondCompared with: His mechanistic physiology supported physical explanations while his caution about consciousness resisted simple reduction.Modern philosophyCompared with: Materialists rejected the immaterial mind central to many modern rationalist systems.Kardecist SpiritismCompared with: Materialism rejects the independent spirits that form the basis of Spiritist explanations.PlatoCompared with: Materialist accounts oppose Plato’s claim that intelligible Forms are more fundamental than sensible things.