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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... becoming gods, supreme beings who could create a second world, using the natural world only as building blocks for our new creation. Men and, increasingly, women experienced a new sense of freedom; they became masters of their own lives ...
... becoming gods, supreme beings who could create a second world, using the natural world only as building blocks for our new creation. Men and, increasingly, women experienced a new sense of freedom; they became masters of their own lives ...
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... growing numbers of people are becoming aware that: Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure. • The dream of being independent masters of our lives.
... growing numbers of people are becoming aware that: Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure. • The dream of being independent masters of our lives.
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... become a superman . But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason . To the degree to which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man . ... It must shake up our conscience that we become ...
... become a superman . But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason . To the degree to which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man . ... It must shake up our conscience that we become ...
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... become greedy because if my is having, I am more the more I have; that I must feel antagonistic toward all others: my customers whom I want to deceive, my competitors whom I want to destroy, my workers whom I want to exploit. I can ...
... become greedy because if my is having, I am more the more I have; that I must feel antagonistic toward all others: my customers whom I want to deceive, my competitors whom I want to destroy, my workers whom I want to exploit. I can ...
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... existential problem by giving up the Messianic vision of harmony between humankind and nature by conquering nature , by transforming it to our own purposes until the conquest has become more and more equivalent to destruction. Our spirit ...
... existential problem by giving up the Messianic vision of harmony between humankind and nature by conquering nature , by transforming it to our own purposes until the conquest has become more and more equivalent to destruction. Our spirit ...
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