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The Causes Responsible for Materialist Tendencies in the West

Author: Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari
Translator: Mujahid Husayn
Publisher: ABWA Publishing and Printing Center
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• The Causes Responsible for Materialist tendencies in the West Part 1 of 4
• Materialism
• Is Man by Nature a Theist or a Materialist?
• The Historical Background
• Materialism in Islamic History
• Materialism in the Modern Age
• Inadequacies in the Religious Ideas of the Church
• Inadequacies in the ideas of the Church relating to God and the metaphysical
• Anthropomorphic Conceptions of God
• Auguste Comte's Conception of God
• The Station of Divinity
• Auguste Comte's Three Stages of Human History
• 1. The Theological Stage
• 2. The Metaphysical Stage
• 3. The Positive Stage
• The Violence of the Church
• Notes
• The Causes Responsible for Materialist tendencies in the West Part 2 of 4
• The Inadequacy of Philosophical Ideas
• The Problem of the First Cause
• Explaining the Universe by Means of Reason and not Cause
• Identity of Mind and Reality
• The Criterion for a Thing's Need for a Cause
• 1. The Theory of the Mutakallimun
• 2. The Theory of Early Islamic Philosophers, such as Ibn Sina, down to the Era of Sadr al-Muta'allihin
• 3. The Special Theory of Sadr al-Muta'allihin and His Followers
• God and Evolution
• Notes
• The Causes Responsible for Materialist tendencies in the West, Part 3 of 4
• Eternity of Matter
• God or Freedom?
• Chance, God, or Causation?
• The Concept of Creation
• Finally Russell himself expresses his opinion in this manner
• Argument from Design
• Notes
• The Causes Responsible for Materialist tendencies in the West Part 4 of 4
• The Inadequacy of the Social and Political Concepts
• Non-Specialist Opinions
• God or Life?
• An Unfavourable Moral and Social Environment
• Bastion of Heroism and Dissent
• Conclusion