To Have or To Be?From the legendary psychoanalyst who wrote The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom: A profound critique of materialism in favor of living with meaning. Life in the modern age began when people no longer lived at the mercy of nature and instead took control of it. We planted crops so we didn’t have to forage, and produced planes, trains, and cars for transport. With televisions and computers, we don’t have to leave home to see the world. Somewhere in that process, the natural tendency of humankind went from one of being and of practicing our own human abilities and powers, to one of having by possessing objects and using tools that replace our own powers to think, feel, and act independently. Fromm argues that positive change—both social and economic—will come from being, loving, and sharing. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate. |
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... Activity and Passivity Being as Reality The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being Security—Insecurity Solidarity—Antagonism Joy—Pleasure Sin and Forgiveness Fear of Dying - Affirmation of Living ...
... Activity and Passivity Being as Reality The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being Security—Insecurity Solidarity—Antagonism Joy—Pleasure Sin and Forgiveness Fear of Dying - Affirmation of Living ...
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... activity, a process, is a verb: for instance I am, I love, I desire, I hate, etc. Yet ever more frequently an activity is expressed in terms of having; that is, a noun is used instead of a verb. But to express an activity by to have in ...
... activity, a process, is a verb: for instance I am, I love, I desire, I hate, etc. Yet ever more frequently an activity is expressed in terms of having; that is, a noun is used instead of a verb. But to express an activity by to have in ...
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Erich Fromm. because processes and activities cannot be possessed ; they can only be experienced . Older Observations : Du Marais - Marx The evil consequences of this confusion were already recognized in the eighteenth century . Du ...
Erich Fromm. because processes and activities cannot be possessed ; they can only be experienced . Older Observations : Du Marais - Marx The evil consequences of this confusion were already recognized in the eighteenth century . Du ...
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... activity of loving, becomes separated from the man. The loving man becomes the man of love. Love becomes a goddess, an idol into which the man projects his loving; in this process of alienation he ceases to experience love, but is in ...
... activity of loving, becomes separated from the man. The loving man becomes the man of love. Love becomes a goddess, an idol into which the man projects his loving; in this process of alienation he ceases to experience love, but is in ...
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... one can have , but a process , an inner activity that one is the subject of . I can love , I can be in love , but in loving , I have ... nothing . In fact , the less I have , the more I can love . Origin of the Terms " To have " is a.
... one can have , but a process , an inner activity that one is the subject of . I can love , I can be in love , but in loving , I have ... nothing . In fact , the less I have , the more I can love . Origin of the Terms " To have " is a.
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activity alienated alive Aquinas attitude authority become behavior Blakney bureaucratic capitalism century character structure Christian Cloud of Unknowing Club of Rome concept consumer consumption craving culture desire disobedience E. F. Schumacher economic Epicurus ERICH ERICH ERICH FROMM Escape from Freedom ethical experience expressed faith fascism fear feel freedom Freud FROMM FROMM function give goal God’s greed hedonism hence human nature humanistic idea idol illusions individuals industrial inner interest Jesus knowledge leaders living marketing character Marx Marx's Master Eckhart means mode of existence object one’s oneself orientation passivity people’s person philosophical pleasure political possession problem production psychoanalytic qualities radical rational reality religion religious representatives rooted selfishness sense sexual Shabbat social character socialist society solidarity Spinoza spirit Talmud things thinking Thomas Aquinas thought translation truth understand Verlag well-being word York Zen Buddhism