However, vulgar materialism considers only physical or physiological ability, while dialectic materialism also takes social conditions into account. The same holds for consciousness and thought. Nevertheless, materialism is much less restrictive than idealism in that respect. In dialectical materialism, conscious beings are treated as able to purposefully change every side of reality, including themselves as a part of it. There will be ever larger domain of Culture in the World, and it is the supreme sense of human existence, to cultivate the World, thus making it a unity.
Materialistic philosophy grows into practice, the only possible way for consciousness to exist.
The syncretic nature of art makes it susceptible to idealistic ideas, while the analyticity of science makes it be essentially based on materialism. Philosophy has to absorb the features of both art and science, melting them into a unity of a different kind. Still, philosophy cannot reveal the sense and value of materialism or idealism within itself, since it is only practice that gives the final answers. There is only one philosophy, and a philosopher can be said to act as a philosopher only while revealing some aspects of the integrity of the World. The opposition of materialism and idealism entirely belongs to the level of socio-economic development known as civilisation, that came to replace the primitive communal system and has to eventually give way to a different organisation of economy and society.