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...Fool is a fairy tale that offers children instruction in how to live rightly, simply, and generously. The story emphasizes the destructive aspects of materialism and militarism while idealizing manual labor and the peasant life. (Introduction by Dorlene Kaplan)...

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...for the man who made it all happen,” she thought on second-thought. ”He’s only to be blamed for that. Why not, he’s the one who maligned my mind with materialism, didn’t he? Or is it Mammon who had seduced my soul to the core? But how does that mater any way. He did desert me at the first post of adversity and that’s what matters. How shameful. Is it cowardice or callousne...

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...ism and solipsism (which, as we know, has nothing to do with the actuality of the Einsteinian physical theory of relativity), dogmatic empiricism and materialism, Kantianism and neo-Kantianism, Hegelianism and non-Hegelian dialectics (existentialism), Gestalt psychologism, symbolic logic, hermeneutics, and all phenomenology. This, while leaving the rather arbitrary self-tr...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as...

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...RGED COUPON And Other Stories BY LEO TOLSTOY INTRODUCTION IN AN AGE OF MATERIALISM like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significan... ... mankind has lost touch with idealism? On the contrary, in spite of modern materialism, or even because of it, many lead ers of spiritual thought hav... ...ous body by which a vigorous mind may be fitly tenanted – and this form of materialism which Tolstoy as a father accepted, Tolstoy as idealist condemn...

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... of the Complex Approach..................242 6. Arthur Young’s Conception............................................................247 7. From Materialism to Cosmism, or Soviet–Russian Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness and Thinking................................252 8 . Consciousness–Thought–Force–Progress.....................................254 A Fe...

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... ideas and a different way to approach life’s basic challenges. Introducing a cutting edge perspective is Jay Lakhani’s article entitled "Challenging Materialism." In this thought-provoking journey, the author takes you through the perspectives of physics, neuroscience and biology, and shows how, from several different views, life itself points to a non-material reality at...

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...so portrays the possibilities of repentance and resolution, love and empathy coupled with compassion and contribution, leading to the spirituality of materialism, and that makes it the saga of our times. ...

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...in of the Devil -Renaissance of Life -Sprouts of Love -Despair of Hope -Turn at the Bend -Amity of Empathy -A Day to Remember -Spirituality of Materialism -Sense of Reincarnation -Epilogue ...

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...The work is considered to be the most complete expression of Santayana's moral philosophy [...]. Santayana's philosophy is strongly influenced by the materialism of Democritus and the refined ethics of Aristotle, with a special emphasis on the natural development of ideal ends. The Life of Reason is sometimes considered to be one of the most poetic and well-written works o...

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...ily in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their wive's challenge and encouragement). The title, The Gilded Age became synonymous with graft, materialism and corruption in public life, which are well represented in this work. Like others of his works, this one reflects truths about American Society that remain pertinent today. Many of the characters and incidents t...

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...f cultural futility — both the futility of the aristocracy to maintain its status and the futility of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its newfound materialism. In reflecting the socio-economic forces at work in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom in the mid-19th century and the sinking of the aris...

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...novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and...

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...The work is considered to be the most complete expression of Santayana's moral philosophy [...]. Santayana's philosophy is strongly influenced by the materialism of Democritus and the refined ethics of Aristotle, with a special emphasis on the natural development of ideal ends. The Life of Reason is sometimes considered to be one of the most poetic and well-written works o...

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...le he is studying, and from that experience he comes to prefer spirituality to materialism. In proportion to his spirituality, he clarifies his will... ...on. It grants a person an inkling of spirituality, bringing him to prefer it to materialism. Then, in relation to his spirituality, he clarifies his... ...bbalist. The group provides strength. Everybody has at least a small desire for materialism, and an even smaller desire for spiritualism. The way to ...

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... hatred, we distaste aggressiveness, selfishness, lust, greed, even gross materialism. We now have developed a taste for goodness, calmness, modesty,...

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...nfabulated utopian contrast to the dystopia of urbanization and Darwinian, ruthless materialism. The traces of this dewy-eyed conception of the "sav...

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...m lady, who believed in the ‘Middle Way’, a path halfway between austerity and the indulgence of materialism. Helen had, of course, met the proud wa...

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...object, the spiritual or meaningful life, is also matter. Spirituality is materialism. In any event, you do not act, you just think, which is to post...

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...m the pseudo-truths of those who espouse extremes in both spirituality and materialism. But there are still millions of people who do not yet know t...

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... children of the idea. And even if we are immersed in forty-nine gates of materialism, we will still not give up the idea. Hence, it is the holy pur... ...e: ‘Here we are’?” There is a path of pain that can cleanse any defect and materialism until one realizes how to raise one’s head out of the beastly ... ...eeds have increased and the mind grew short and corrupted in the filth of materialism which apprehends the lead. Servants ride horses and ministers ...