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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... fact that we have all become cogs in the bureaucratic machine , with our thoughts , feelings , and tastes manipulated by government and industry and the mass communications that they control . • Economic progress has remained restricted ...
... fact that we have all become cogs in the bureaucratic machine , with our thoughts , feelings , and tastes manipulated by government and industry and the mass communications that they control . • Economic progress has remained restricted ...
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... facts that natural resources have their limits and can eventually be exhausted, and that nature will fight back against human rapaciousness. Industrial society has contempt for nature—as well as for all things not machine-made and for ...
... facts that natural resources have their limits and can eventually be exhausted, and that nature will fight back against human rapaciousness. Industrial society has contempt for nature—as well as for all things not machine-made and for ...
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... fact is that no serious effort is made to avert what looks like a final decree of fate. While in our private life nobody except a mad person would remain passive in view of a threat to his total existence, those who are in charge of ...
... fact is that no serious effort is made to avert what looks like a final decree of fate. While in our private life nobody except a mad person would remain passive in view of a threat to his total existence, those who are in charge of ...
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... fact that little effort has been made to study the feasibility of entirely new social models and to experiment with them . Indeed , as long as the problems of social reconstruction will not , even if only partly , take the place of the ...
... fact that little effort has been made to study the feasibility of entirely new social models and to experiment with them . Indeed , as long as the problems of social reconstruction will not , even if only partly , take the place of the ...
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Erich Fromm. rather insignificant and generally unnoticed by passersby. This is a plain fact described in the poem with no specifically poetic feeling expressed anywhere except perhaps in the last two syllables, which read in Japanese ...
Erich Fromm. rather insignificant and generally unnoticed by passersby. This is a plain fact described in the poem with no specifically poetic feeling expressed anywhere except perhaps in the last two syllables, which read in Japanese ...
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