The research deals with an important rhetorical phenomenon found in Arabic literature, as the literary text gives it aesthetic privacy, and is of diagnosis, appeared poetry (Abi Al-Baqa Al-Rundi). As al-Baqa al-Randi) a distinctive stylized artistic image, characterized by vitality activity beautiful suggestive which contributes to arousing emotion listener within poetic text, trying question a...

Materialism is the idea that human beings are material objects—brains, perhaps, or some part of the brain—without immaterial selves or souls. I give two arguments against materialism. The first is an argument from possibility: it is possible that I should exist when no part of my body exists, in which case I am not identical with my body or any part of my body. The second is an argument from im...

In this paper I propose a defense of a posteriori materialism. Problems with a posteriori identity materialism are identified, and a materialism based on composition, not identity, is proposed. The main task for such a proposal is to account for the relation between physical and phenomenal properties. Composition does not seem to be fit as a relation between properties, but I offer a peculiar w...

Although materialism has a robust relationship with compulsive buying, psychological theories also suggest that financial attitudes and financial management practices would significantly predict compulsive buying severity even after controlling for materialism. We also expected that financial attitudes and financial management practices would moderate the relationship between materialism and co...

Materialistic youth seem to be languishing while grateful youth seem to be flourishing. High school students (N = 1,035) completed measures of materialism, gratitude, academic functioning, envy, depression, life satisfaction, social integration, and absorption. Using structural equation modeling, we found that gratitude, controlling for materialism, uniquely predicts all outcomes considered: hi...

The goals of the current study were to examine whether (a) negative events mediate the relationship between materialism and risky behavior engagement and (b) materialism moderates the relationship between stress and engagement in risky behaviors in Chinese youth. At Time 1, 406 adolescents (ages 14-19) from Yue Yang, China, completed measures assessing engagement in risky behaviors and the occu...

This chapter proposes one definition of critical materialism and a critique politics based on several authors from Marx to Foucault. occurs in stages unfolds as criticism universals such human freedom, general interest, political rationality, or reconciled community. The decisive materialist-historical question, then, is which the different materialities dominant at certain point time. I argue ...

s Gibson (1982) correctly points out, despite Quine's brief flirtation with a " mitigated phenomenalism " (Gibson's phrase) in the late 1940's and early 1950's, Quine's ontology of 1953 (" On Mental Entities ") and beyond left no room for non-physical sensory objects or qualities. Anyone familiar with the contemporary neo-dualist qualia-freak-fest might wonder why Quinean lessons were insuffici...

This study provides empirical data to test a proposed theoretical model on adolescents’ endorsement of materialistic values that is based on John’s (1999) model of consumer socialization of children and Kasser, Rayan Couchman and Sheldon’s (2004) model of materialistic value orientation. A survey of 730 adolescents aged 11 to 19 in Beijing was conducted in March 2003 using Richins and Dawson’s ...