materialists
Possessions over principles
Materialists are people who prioritize material possessions and physical comfort over spiritual or intellectual values: The critics dismissed them as shallow materialists obsessed with status symbols.
In philosophy, materialists hold that physical matter is the fundamental substance of reality, and that mental phenomena can be explained in terms of physical processes.
The two senses sometimes overlap in criticism of consumer culture.
Acquiring goods at retailers
- brandsCommercial product names
- retailSales to end users
- advertisingPaid promotional communication
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
gadgets · fashion · trends · buying · malls · merchandise · acquisitiveness · status-seeking
All is matter
- monismSingle-substance metaphysics
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
determinism · atomism · secularism · scientism · positivism · Epicureans · Marx · Engels
Of body or matter
- concreteSolid building mixture
- palpablePerceptible to touch or senses
- corporealHaving physical existence
- substantialOf notable size or importance
measurable · empirical · observable · sensory · objective · quantifiable · evidence-based · practical
Abundance of money
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
hoarding · acquisitive · gold-digger · plutocrats · tycoons · magnates · greed · avarice
shopping
Acquiring goods at retailers
- brandsCommercial product names
- retailSales to end users
- advertisingPaid promotional communication
luxury · gadgets · fashion · trends · buying · malls · merchandise · acquisitiveness · status-seeking · hyperconsumerism
physicalism
All is matter
- monismSingle-substance metaphysics
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
empiricism · determinism · atomism · secularism · scientism · positivism · Epicureans · Marx · Engels · Democritus
physical
Of body or matter
- concreteSolid building mixture
- palpablePerceptible to touch or senses
- corporealHaving physical existence
substantial · measurable · empirical · observable · sensory · objective · quantifiable · evidence-based · practical · down-to-earth
affluence
Abundance of money
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- fortuneWealth or destiny
opulence · hoarding · acquisitive · gold-digger · plutocrats · tycoons · magnates · greed · avarice · mammon
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- mind theoriesdualists, functionalists, illusionists
- Epistemologistsempiricists, rationalists, positivists, constructivists, instrumentalists
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- freethinkersfreethinker, freethinkers, secularists, rationalist, rationalists
materialistsidealists
Pursuers of perfect visions
spiritualists · dualists · mentalists · theists · supernaturalists
materialistsspiritualists
Those who contact the dead
idealists · ascetics · mystics · transcendentalists · contemplatives
materialistsascetics
People practicing severe self-discipline
minimalists · renunciants · monks · hermits · mendicants