Materiality

Understood literally, this is the quality of ‘being material’ or ‘enfleshed’. It is the acknowledgement that we are all material beings, constituted from other material things. Indeed, more than this, it is the acknowledgement that we are material beings around which are situated other material things. It is important to note that this is not the same as materialism, that is the commodification and idolatry of the material. This is a recognition, located in recent social thought, that we know, experience and encounter the world and others through our material existence - not simply as disembodied minds.

Related Topics:

Philosophy

Contributed by: Richard P Whaite