Sentences with phrase «reductionist materialism»

This is a bit of evidence of his early preference for a rich, «thick» metaphysics over a reductionist materialism.

Affirming a Platonic formal value does certainly undermine reductionist materialism, but it is not itself evidence of a realm in which exists the transcendent Creator.

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While they are being uprooted in many quarters of modern thought the premises of scientific materialism and reductionist empiricism still have a tenacious hold on our consciousness.

It is also more congenial to modern medicine precisely because of the way it affirms the unity of mind and body — unlike a reductionist theory of mechanistic materialism or a pure spiritualism that denies the body's value.