What is ancient naive materialism?

Ancient naive materialism, also known as "simple materialism" and spontaneous materialism, is the initial form of materialism in three stages. Simple materialism has the following basic characteristics.

Try to find the unity of natural phenomena with infinite diversity in some concrete and tangible objects or some special things. Naive materialism affirmed the material origin and unity of the world. Due to the limitation of knowledge level, a certain or specific material form is always regarded as the material origin and unified material basis of the world.

Extended data:

Although the naive materialism thought is correct in essence, it is the first of the three main stages in the history of materialism philosophy, which has played a certain progressive role in history and greatly influenced the development of materialism later, but it is limited by history, class and scientific knowledge level.

It is still perceptual and intuitive, lacking scientific argumentation, but it is still idealistic in explaining social and historical phenomena. So it can't resist the speculative attacks of idealism and metaphysics later. Only dialectical materialism can completely overcome its defects and test the truth with practice, thus giving a fatal blow to idealism and metaphysics.

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