Materialism is a philosophical doctrine which argues that all things are fundamentally made of matter, and that consciousness is a secondary phenomenon resulting from material interactions. In the specific context of the 19th century, materialism expressed a growing faith that science and reason could explain the world in its entirety.
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Materialism Term Timeline in Beyond Good and Evil
The timeline below shows where the term Materialism appears in Beyond Good and Evil. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
1. On the Prejudices of Philosophers
...While he ridicules thinkers who want to go back to a time before secularism and materialism, he commends them, too, for their desire to escape the constraints of modern thinking.
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3. What Is Religious
...there was nothing left to sacrifice but God, who has been traded for “the nothing”: materialism and nihilism.
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