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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... Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of Being Having and Consuming II. Having and Being in Daily Experience Learning Remembering Conversing Reading Exercising Authority Having Knowledge and Knowing Faith Loving III. Having and Being.
... Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of Being Having and Consuming II. Having and Being in Daily Experience Learning Remembering Conversing Reading Exercising Authority Having Knowledge and Knowing Faith Loving III. Having and Being.
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... concepts will compensate even readers who are familiar with my previous writings. Actually, the title of this book and two earlier titles are almost identical: Gabriel Marcel, Being and Having, and Balthasar Staehelin, Haben und Sein ...
... concepts will compensate even readers who are familiar with my previous writings. Actually, the title of this book and two earlier titles are almost identical: Gabriel Marcel, Being and Having, and Balthasar Staehelin, Haben und Sein ...
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... concept that would easily arise when " profit " ceased to mean " profit for the soul " ( as it does in the Bible and , even later , in Spinoza ) , but came to mean material , monetary profit , in the period when the middle class threw ...
... concept that would easily arise when " profit " ceased to mean " profit for the soul " ( as it does in the Bible and , even later , in Spinoza ) , but came to mean material , monetary profit , in the period when the middle class threw ...
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... concept of unlimited pleasure forms a strange contradiction to the ideal of disciplined work, similar to the contradiction between the acceptance of an obsessional work ethic and the ideal of complete laziness during the rest of the day ...
... concept of unlimited pleasure forms a strange contradiction to the ideal of disciplined work, similar to the contradiction between the acceptance of an obsessional work ethic and the ideal of complete laziness during the rest of the day ...
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... concept of " just price " ) ; nevertheless , economic behavior remained human behavior and , hence , was subject to the values of humanistic ethics . Through a number of steps eighteenth - century capitalism underwent a radical change ...
... concept of " just price " ) ; nevertheless , economic behavior remained human behavior and , hence , was subject to the values of humanistic ethics . Through a number of steps eighteenth - century capitalism underwent a radical change ...
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