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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... experienced a new sense of freedom; they became masters of their own lives: feudal chains had been broken and one could do what one wished, Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and Alternatives The End of an Illusion.
... experienced a new sense of freedom; they became masters of their own lives: feudal chains had been broken and one could do what one wished, Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and Alternatives The End of an Illusion.
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... experience an optimum of bodily pleasure is the goal of life and that happiness is the sum total of pleasures enjoyed. The little we know of his philosophy we owe to Diogenes Laertius, but it is enough to reveal Aristippus as the only ...
... experience an optimum of bodily pleasure is the goal of life and that happiness is the sum total of pleasures enjoyed. The little we know of his philosophy we owe to Diogenes Laertius, but it is enough to reveal Aristippus as the only ...
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... experience he had during the Spanish Civil War is a telling example of this widespread attitude: Koestler sat in the comfortable villa of a friend while the advance of Franco's troops was reported; there was no doubt that they would ...
... experience he had during the Spanish Civil War is a telling example of this widespread attitude: Koestler sat in the comfortable villa of a friend while the advance of Franco's troops was reported; there was no doubt that they would ...
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... experience that readers can easily relate to in their own personal experience . Chapter III presents the views on having and being in the Old and the New Testaments and in the writings of Master Eckhart . Subsequent chapters deal with ...
... experience that readers can easily relate to in their own personal experience . Chapter III presents the views on having and being in the Old and the New Testaments and in the writings of Master Eckhart . Subsequent chapters deal with ...
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... experience, the respective strengths of which determine the differences between the characters of individuals and various types of social character. Examples. in. Various. Poetic. Expressions. As an introduction to understanding the ...
... experience, the respective strengths of which determine the differences between the characters of individuals and various types of social character. Examples. in. Various. Poetic. Expressions. As an introduction to understanding the ...
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