materialism

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Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
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The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
(quote-book)|title=The Sermons by the Late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster|section=Sermon I|passage=The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.
(RQ:William James Varieties)
(quote-web)
Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
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