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It is not new. Cicero called the materialistic systems of thought "plebeian philosophies." Plato believed them suited only to the uneducated masses, unequal to the strain of mentalistic thought. On a somewhat higher level Cicero included the half-educated body-is-the-only-reality Epicureans.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Truth > # 135