The purpose of the paper is to examine whether students attending state universities and Jesuit universities possess different levels of love of money and materialism. Students attending marketing classes at two universities in the same region of the U.S. (one state and one Jesuit) were asked to complete a survey containing instruments to measure their love of money and their materialism. The r...

With Marx’s Ecology, John Bellamy Foster has written the definitive account of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’s materialism. Its title notwithstanding, Marx’s Ecology is far more than an account of Marx’s thinking about nature. Marx’s materialism is not contained within the critique of capitalism, Foster argues, but rather the other way around—it is Marx’s critique of capitalism that is contain...

Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it not simply dismissed as heresy atheism. In nineteenth century, evolved into a central progressive politics, reappearing again in past decades through renewed Marxist Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, feminist discourses. This volume inqui...

Purpose – China is undergoing a radical change as the forces of industrialization and modernization transform its society. Money is taking on an increasingly important role, particularly among young Chinese, as the Western ideals of individualism and hedonism thrive. The goal of this research is to understand attitudes towards money in China and how these attitudes affect elements of consumer b...

there are different approaches in philosophical justification of the influences of metaphysical or spiritual causes on the material world. according to the approaches of the the most muslim thinkers, the deposited factors are influencing the on material world, but such influencing is along with the natural and material causes. accordingly, is it possible to propose a methodological materialism ...

The author condemns the “hegemony” of scientifi c materialism, comparing it to the dominance of scholasticism during the Middle Ages. He points out that if we are to regard religious entities and spiritual experiences as “supernatural” and imaginary on the grounds that they cannot be measured and described objectively, then we must regard all our experience of the world as equally supernatural ...