One thing that I found most interesting within the toolkit was metaphysics. When I took the Nature of Human Nature last semester, the word came up quite a few times, but not without the accompaniment of the word materialism. The word did in fact appear within the toolkit, but I found to not be explained (which I'm sure it was not meant to be, rather be present for us, as the students, to look it up on our own).
What I found materialism to mean (or more so, how it was explained to mean last semester) was that it is the ideal that everything within the universe is made of matter and only things that consist of matter truly exist. Therefore, hypothetical constructs such as souls or a, dare I say, god do not exist.
By no means am I saying that this belief is correct, I am merely relaying how it was conveyed to me. I am interested to see if this is how materialism is defined within the confines of this class, or if there is something I'm missing, or if I am just plain messing up the definition. Whichever the case, I am most interested to delve further into the concepts of metaphysics and materialism.
That is the correct definition of materialism.
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