In the eighteenth century, materialism developed into a philosophy and gained a following that continues into the present day. Some eighteenth-century materialist philosophers were downright atheists. A few philosophers, such as the Stoics or Thomas Hobbes, while not atheists, held that God is corporeal.

During the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels extended the concept of materialism to elaborate a materialist conception of history centered on the roughly empirical world of human activity (practice, including labor) and the institutions …

French materialism is the name given to a handful of French 18th-century philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, many of them clustered around the salon of Baron d'Holbach. Although there are important differences between them, all of them were materialists who believed that the world was made up of a single substance, matter, the motions ...

The paper explores the evolution of materialism as a philosophical concept, particularly its emergence and progression during the eighteenth century. It argues that materialism developed a dual nature, being both a scientific inquiry into physical reality and a …

2016年9月17日 · In the eighteenth century, materialism developed into a philosophy and gained a following that continues into the present day. Some eighteenth-century materialist philosophers were downright atheists. A few philosophers, such as the Stoics or Thomas Hobbes, while not atheists, held that God is corporeal.

In the nineteenth century, materialism takes on a meaning familiar to us today, as the science-friendly doctrine, the ideological combatant for science but also its ‘valet’, leading to a rather pronounced split in possible meanings, between the

2020年2月13日 · As for physics, it was common until the late eighteenth century to explain electricity, heat, light, and magnetism either by specific subtle, imponderable kinds of matter (matter of heat, of fire, and of light, electric matter, magnetic matter) or by a generic ether (cf., for instance, Gehler 1787–1796, vol. 1, 83).

In the eighteenth century, materialism developed into a philosophy and gained a following that continues into the present day. Some eighteenth-century materialist philosophers were downright atheists. A few philosophers, such as the Stoics or Thomas Hobbes, while not atheists, held that God is corporeal.

The review of John W. Yolton's "Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain" praises it as a significant contribution to the understanding of materialism and philosophy of mind during the 18th century.

Following the tenets of Epicurean atomism, the book derided religion and espoused an atheistic, deterministic materialism: all causation was reduced to patterns of motion, man became a machine devoid of free will, and religion was excoriated as not just untrue, but dangerous.