Events Tagged: "materialism"

Democritus develops atomic theory - 'Nothing exists except atoms and empty space'

Poggio Bracciolini discovers Lucretius's 'De Rerum Natura' - Epicurean materialism recovered

Thomas Hobbes's 'Leviathan' - 'Words are wise men's counters... but they are the money of fools' - No essences, only names we impose - 'The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material' - Man in nature: 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'

La Mettrie's 'Man a Machine' - pure materialism: 'The soul is but an empty word'

Diderot's Encyclopedia begins - systematic replacement of Christian worldview with hidden materialism

D'Holbach's 'System of Nature' - pure mechanistic atheism: 'universe presents only matter and motion'

Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts - material production determines consciousness

Darwin's Origin of Species - man descended from animals, no purpose, mind from matter

First issue of Nature journal proclaims worship of Nature - She is all things...omnipotent

World War II - Materialism's ultimate fruit (1939-1945)

Pope Benedict XVI states: 'Marx's fundamental error was materialism; he forgot that man always remains man'