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.Denis DiderotNarrower topic: Diderot’s arguments helped develop a distinctive Enlightenment form of materialism.Dialectical materialismNarrower topic: This framework gives material conditions explanatory priority.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.Julien Offray de La MettrieNarrower topic: La Mettrie extended this view to thought, treating mental activity as a bodily process.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.