Monday, October 24, 2011

Naturalism and Dialectical Materialism

            Naturalism's definition from merrian-webster's dictionary is "a theory denying that an event or object has a supernatural significance; specifically: the doctrine that scientific laws are adequate to account for all phenomena." The same source defines dialectical materialism as "the Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind." Both worldviews hold the same atheistic view but they are different in many areas. For example, dialectical materialism believes that everything has to have a thesis and an anti-thesis. The two are compared and analyzed and from the two comes the synthesis, and then the synthesis turns into the thesis. It is just an ongoing triangle of a worldview. They look to the constant change in socializing and thesis and antithesis for guidance
              On the other hand, naturalism is the opposite. They are evolutionists; believing in the "survival of the fittest" and the beliefs of Charles Darwin.Furthermore, a naturalist believes in Carma. That if you sin, and do something bad or out of line to another person, they will be "punished". This goes even as far as a person being murdered. The family would just say "bad Carma" which is quite sad; even worse that neither believe in God. Ultimately they only look to science and chance for answers.
          

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