This document discusses different types and aspects of materialism. It defines materialism as the belief that only physical things that can be seen or touched truly exist. It outlines several types of materialism, including dialectical, historical, and cultural materialism. The document notes both positive and negative impacts of materialism on society. While material goods are necessary for everyday life, an overemphasis on materialism can promote greed, crime, and the deterioration of social and environmental well-being. In conclusion, it argues that some level of materialism is acceptable and necessary to engage with the modern world, but it should not come at the cost of destroying cultural values.

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What Is Materialism???
All that thing which have existence
are materials to which we can
physically see or touch.
 the belief that all that exists is the physical
 there are no higher realities, no psychic or
spiritual truths independent of the physical world
 gave people a whole new outlook and pleasure in
life.

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Types Of Materialism
 Dialectical Materialism
 Historical Materialism
 Mechanical Materialism
 Christian Materialism
 Scientistic Materialism
Cultural Materialism

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PRINCIPLES OF
MATERIALISM1. The basis of human society is how
humans work on nature to produce the
means of subsistence.
2. There is a division of labour into social
classes (relations of production) based on
property ownership where some people live
from the labour of others.
3. The system of class division is
dependent on the mode of production.
4. The mode of production is based on the
level of the productive forces.

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Materialism in Today’s
Society
 produce things that no one truly needs
 it results in a competitive mode
 It causes us to care less for the Earth
than we do for our own well-being.

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 Material fortune speak louder than
such virtues like honest, dignity and trust.
 The desire to get rich, greed, insatiable
love for materialism power tussle and social
malaise have almost caught up with
everyone in the society.
 “ The love of money is the root
of all evils”

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Positive aspect of
materialism
 necessary because we consume these
materials
 necessary in our every day life lives.
 helps us to find and deal from all the
issues of the real world.

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Negative Aspects of
Materialism
 promotes short-sightedness
 People develop negative qualities
 People think on easy way to get money
 indulging in bad activities

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 distracting from their religion
 rising crime
 deteriorating family structure
 corrupt business culture
 students fail because they see the
growing culture

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CONCLUSION
The New Age phenomenon is very much a
materialistic approach in fact it is a thinly
disguised system of conquest applied to what we
perceive as the spiritual. We are in a peculiar
dilemma, we know that something is wrong but
we are so absorbed in escaping from the pain that
we do not take the time required to learn the true
nature of the disease. But to some extend we need
materialism because if we do not accept this we
will be left behind from others who are accepting
this. So we can say that we should be materialistic
but to some extend. We should not destroy our
culture in accepting this.

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