Those who wanted to develop a “meaningful philosophy of life” decreased by nearly half. Research by Tim Kasser and Jean Twenge showed that materialism among 12th graders increased over time ...

Lenin insisted, “The philosophy of Marxism is materialism.” He stated that materialism “has proved to be the only philosophy that is consistent, true to all the teachings of natural science ...

They were talking about materialism in a way that no one had talked about it in my philosophy classes. In seminars, ...

Research by Tim Kasser and Jean Twenge showed that materialism among 12th graders increased over time, peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s with Generation X, and then stayed at those ...