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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... discussion of materialism in modern science and a contribution to Wirklichkeitsanalyse; this volume deals with an empirical psychological and social analysis of the two modes of existence. I recommend the books by Marcel and Staehelin ...
... discussion of materialism in modern science and a contribution to Wirklichkeitsanalyse; this volume deals with an empirical psychological and social analysis of the two modes of existence. I recommend the books by Marcel and Staehelin ...
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... discussions he helped my understanding of fine points of Christian theology; he was untiring in pointing to literature in the field of theology; he read the manuscript several times and his excellent constructive suggestions as well as ...
... discussions he helped my understanding of fine points of Christian theology; he was untiring in pointing to literature in the field of theology; he read the manuscript several times and his excellent constructive suggestions as well as ...
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... discussion of the concept of being is additionally complicated because being has been the subject matter of many thousands of philosophical books and " What is being ? ” has been one of the crucial questions of Western philosophy ...
... discussion of the concept of being is additionally complicated because being has been the subject matter of many thousands of philosophical books and " What is being ? ” has been one of the crucial questions of Western philosophy ...
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Erich Fromm. psychological points of view, the philosophical discussion is, of course, not unrelated to the anthropological problems. Since even a brief presentation of the development of the concept of being in the history of philosophy ...
Erich Fromm. psychological points of view, the philosophical discussion is, of course, not unrelated to the anthropological problems. Since even a brief presentation of the development of the concept of being in the history of philosophy ...
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... discussing some simple illustrations of the having and being modes of existence, another manifestation of having must be mentioned, that of incorporating. Incorporating a thing, for instance by eating or drinking, is an archaic form of ...
... discussing some simple illustrations of the having and being modes of existence, another manifestation of having must be mentioned, that of incorporating. Incorporating a thing, for instance by eating or drinking, is an archaic form of ...
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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