Naturalism, Materialism, Physicalism

Jul 08, 2008 23:32

I've just been through an ordeal of trying to find an acceptable definition of "naturalism" that isn't "materialism" or "physicalism."

Would anyone care to enumerate the differences between the three for me? I'm especially interested if you happen to espouse any one of these, what you believe differentiates it from the other two.

Also, specifically, I've heard buddhist authors and others make statements such as "everything is just molecules." Which one of the three does this fall under?
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