Materialism

21200699 Jiseon Jeong

21200688 Yeonhee Jeong

21400498 Hanul Yun

21200570 Insung Lee

Introduction

21200699 Jiseon Jeong

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that

matter is the fundamental substance in nature,

and all phenomena are identical with material interactions.

What is Materialism?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

In modern society,

Material success = The highest value in our life

History of Materialism Back to Top

Greek philosophers

Like Democritus

Middle

Ages

17th

century

Scientific Revolution

Like Copernicus, Galileo,

and Newton

☞ Thomas Hobbs

19th

century

Materialism condemned

by the ChurchKarl Marx

1) Dialectical Materialism

-Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

2) Historical Materialism

21th

Century-Ancient

Ages

Mammonism

Collecting material goods

=priority

3 Kinds of Materialism

Materialism Psychological materialism

Ontological materialism

Ethical materialism

1) Ontological Materialism

“Everything is made of material”

-Belief, or assumption, that only material matter and energy exist.

As the atoms collided,

they made larger and larger structures

including the Earth.

-Democritus

http://dofsofastronomy.weebly.com/democritus.html

2) Psychological materialism

- All kinds of mental phenomena are reduced into material phenomena.

All human psychological functions

are vibration in the brain.

-Thomas Hobbes

https://www.google.com/search?q=Thomas+hobbes&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI8e6A-IngyAIVSpCUCh2SmQmE#imgrc=vGluBXXVujocgM%3A

3) Ethical Materialism

“A view of life that consider

material value as important in

comparison with spiritual value”

Matter

ONLY

Strong points

21200688 Yeonhee Jeong

http://www.jimknaggs.com/enroute-to-the-objectives/

.http://www.sodahead.com/living/do-you-think-you-would-have-opened-the-door-to-james-holmes-apt-as-kaitlyn-fonzi-almost-did/question-2816283/

http://lawschooli.com/necessary-assumption-lsat-lr/

http://worldwartwozone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/10674-us-paratroopers/

http://car.biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/16/2011091600458.html

http://car.biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/16/2011091600458.html

Primary industrySecondary/tertiary

industry

http://blog.sorifestival.com/796 http://prologue.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=soochai&logNo=40157368763&parentCategoryNo=7&categoryNo=&viewDate=&isShowPopularPosts=false&from=postView

weak points

21400498 Hanul Yun

http://pann.nate.com/b322965230http://blog.naver.com/juanlimmx/220503563588

http://smallscreen4.tistory.com/110

http://m.breaknews.com/a.html?uid=43125

http://www.etoday.co.kr/news/section/newsview.php?idxno=1050302

http://www.etoday.co.kr/news/section/newsview.php?idxno=1050302

http://www.etoday.co.kr/news/section/newsview.php?idxno=1050302

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Christian alternatives

21200570 Insung Lee

1) Cultural mandate

Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Weakness 1) Materialism depreciates the value of human life.

2) Presence of God & Miracles

Weakness 2) Materialism can’t explain supernatural things.

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "

Revelation 1:8

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God,

"who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

2) Presence of God & Miracles

Weakness 2) Materialism can’t explain supernatural things.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,

3) We can’t live alone

Weakness 3) In Materialism, people have fallen into egoism.

Acts 4:32All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any

of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.1Peter 4:10

Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.

3) We can’t live alone

Weakness 3) In Materialism, people have fallen into egoism.

Matthew 6: 24 No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

“You cannot serve both God and Money.”

Q & A

Open question

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reference

<book>

Christianity and modern thoughts textbook

역사적유물론-빅토르아파나셰프지음/김성환옮김/백두,1988

마르크스주의의비판과반비판-사끼사까이쓰로지음/일월서각,1991

<web site>

http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/materialism.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

http://www.viewzone.com/pineal.html

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Materialism

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/mean09.htm