Materialism in Historical Perspective

Mohamed Rabie ()
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Mohamed Rabie: Arab Thought Council

Chapter Chapter 6 in A Future Economy for All, 2023, pp 33-39 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on explaining the role of materialism in society; materialism seams to have lately acquired the role claimed by religion in a traditional agricultural society. People are rich and poor, not because God and religion had ordained it as old societies believed, but because economics and knowledge and culture and greed have determined it. Man, consequently, is seen as the master of his fate, and that neither God nor religion has anything to do with his lot in life.

Keywords: Materialism; God; Religion; Community; Ghettos; Poverty; Property; Middle class; Values; Socialism; Capitalism; Democracy; Justice; South Korea; Saudi Arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42957-6_6

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