What is materialism in philosophy? In just 2 minutes, this video clearly explains the core idea that everything in the universe, including mind and consciousness, can ultimately be explained in terms ...

Materialism is often seen as a driving force in today’s consumer-driven society. People strive to acquire more possessions, usually equating material wealth with success and happiness.

I’m a consumer psychologist who has been researching materialism for 30 years. Materialists are more motivated and excited by the purchase of a product more than the actual use of the product.

3 Tips to Tame Your Materialism and Be Happier Materialism can make you miserable, science shows. Here’s how to weaken its grip on your life.

Materialism, sometimes called naturalism, is the belief that matter — molecules in motion — is all that exists. Everything else: mind, consciousness, spirit — must somehow be reduced to the ...

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart (Yale, 365 pp., $28) Despite what its title seems to promise, this book is not really about “the experience of God ...

The knowledge you gain by doing things yourself can pay off later in unexpected ways.

The researchers concluded that low life satisfaction caused materialism, and only in kids who frequently saw TV advertising. "It's really about the way that advertising tries to sell products ...

Materialism makes for rocky relationships, study suggests By Ryan Jaslow October 14, 2011 / 12:06 PM EDT / CBS News ...

But our materialism makes it more difficult. David Smith is a lecturer in American history at Baylor University. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News. What's your view?

Materialism is good enough, except for its reputation; and the ideas which arc to follow will not be so precise as to call for great, nicety in name.