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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... Character Asceticism and Equality Existential Having V. What Is the Being Mode? Being Active Activity and Passivity Being as Reality The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being Security—Insecurity ...
... Character Asceticism and Equality Existential Having V. What Is the Being Mode? Being Active Activity and Passivity Being as Reality The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being Security—Insecurity ...
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... Character , and Society The Foundations of Social Character Social Character and " Religious " Needs Is the Western World Christian ? The Humanist Protest VIII . Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man The New Man IX ...
... Character , and Society The Foundations of Social Character Social Character and " Religious " Needs Is the Western World Christian ? The Humanist Protest VIII . Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man The New Man IX ...
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... character orientations. The last third of the book, Part Three, then carries further a theme I dealt with in The Sane Society and The Revolution of Hope: the crisis of contemporary society and possibilities for its solution. Repetitions ...
... character orientations. The last third of the book, Part Three, then carries further a theme I dealt with in The Sane Society and The Revolution of Hope: the crisis of contemporary society and possibilities for its solution. Repetitions ...
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... character. It means: that I want everything for myself; that possessing, not sharing, gives me pleasure; that I must become greedy because if my is having, I am more the more I have; that I must feel antagonistic toward all others: my ...
... character. It means: that I want everything for myself; that possessing, not sharing, gives me pleasure; that I must become greedy because if my is having, I am more the more I have; that I must feel antagonistic toward all others: my ...
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... character traits engendered by our socioeconomic system, i.e., by our way of living, are pathogenic and eventually produce a sick person and, thus, a sick society. There is, however, a second argument from an entirely different ...
... character traits engendered by our socioeconomic system, i.e., by our way of living, are pathogenic and eventually produce a sick person and, thus, a sick society. There is, however, a second argument from an entirely different ...
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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