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	French materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French materialism combined the associationist psychology and Empiricism of John Locke with the Totality of Isaac Newton to create a complex world view in diametrical opposition to the Cartesian dualist world view.
		Diderot's psychology differed slightly from Lockes as he saw the mind as active, forming general ideas then using those ideas to create more knowledge and ideas.
		The Baron d'Holbach's System of Nature applied the Mechanistic Materialism to the whole of nature and proposed that consciousness has the ability to produce a new order of reality broken down into three subsets; brute facts, social facts, and mental facts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_materialism (750 words)

	Philosophical Arabesques by Nikolai Bukharin \| Excerpt
		In Historical Materialism, published in 1921 and used as a basic text in higher party schools, he interpreted dialectics in terms of equilibrium: of conflict of forces, disturbance of equilibrium, new combination of forces, restoration of equilibrium.
		He placed marxism within the context of all contemporary currents in philosophy and emphasised how dialectical materialism had overcome the narrowness of mechanistic materialism by superceding its ahistoricism, its quietism, its individualism.
		He engaged in polemics against positivism and mechanistic materialism, but the weight of his emphasis was on many forms of idealism from hegelian rationalism to primitivist mysticism.
	www.monthlyreview.org /sheehanxcerpt.htm (5057 words)

	Famous Dead Nontheists
		Even morality, the soul, and all mental life are reducible to mechanistic terms with physical imperceptible atoms as their basic structure.
		Consequently, he said, death need not be a matter of anxious concern, inasmuch as it is merely the state in which all sensation ceases.
		From the material presented it would seem that Lincoln as a young man was an avid anti-christian and most likely an atheist.
	www.jmarkgilbert.com /atheists.html (13073 words)

	CHAPTER 33 - EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY Part 1
		It is ironic to recall that it was the increasingly secular outlook in the nineteenth century which initially eased the way for the acceptance of evolution, while today it is perhaps the Darwinian view of nature more than any other that is responsible for the agnostic and skeptical outlook of the twentieth century.
		Millions of lives have been lost—morally and physically—because of the insidious views of Charles Darwin.
		"Darwin's mechanistic approach found an immediate response in Karl Marx (1818-83), the German-Jewish philosopher-in-exile, whose self-appointed task in London was to rewrite history in communist terms and prepare the world for revolution.
	www.evolution-facts.org /Ev-V3/3evlch33a.htm (8763 words)

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