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neo-marxism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Loose term for various 20th-century approaches that amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, usually by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions (such as critical theory).

materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of 'material' and all phenomena are the result of material ...

christian materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' is matter due to the teachings of Christ.

dialectical materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Considered to be the philosophical basis of Marxism, it states that ideas and arguments can only exist as matter and that the subconscious protohuman does not exist.

The methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history first articulated by Karl Marx. His fundamental proposition of historical materialism can be summed up in the following: It ...

eliminative materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Absolute version of materialism and physicalism with respect to mental entities and mental vocabulary, according to which our common-sense understanding of the mind (what eliminativists call folk ...

emergent materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense, albeit not in the sense of being an ontological simple, and that the study of mental phenomena is independent of ...