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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... ethical norm . They were concerned with humankind's optimal well - being ( vivere bene ) . The essential element in their thinking is the distinction between those needs ( desires ) that are only subjectively felt and whose satisfaction ...
... ethical norm . They were concerned with humankind's optimal well - being ( vivere bene ) . The essential element in their thinking is the distinction between those needs ( desires ) that are only subjectively felt and whose satisfaction ...
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... ethical theories have been developed since the eighteenth century—some were more respectable forms of hedonism, such as Utilitarianism; others were strictly antihedonistic systems, such as those of Kant, Marx, Thoreau, and Schweitzer ...
... ethical theories have been developed since the eighteenth century—some were more respectable forms of hedonism, such as Utilitarianism; others were strictly antihedonistic systems, such as those of Kant, Marx, Thoreau, and Schweitzer ...
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... ethical principles . Thus , for the scholastic theologians , such economic categories as price and private property were part of moral theology . Granted that the theologians found formulations to adapt their moral code to the new ...
... ethical principles . Thus , for the scholastic theologians , such economic categories as price and private property were part of moral theology . Granted that the theologians found formulations to adapt their moral code to the new ...
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... ethical or religious demand. For the first time in history the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change of the human heart. However, a change of the human heart is possible only to the extent that drastic economic ...
... ethical or religious demand. For the first time in history the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change of the human heart. However, a change of the human heart is possible only to the extent that drastic economic ...
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