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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... goal of life: Pleasure. Epicurus can hardly be regarded as representative of Aristippus' kind of hedonism. While for Epicurus “pure” pleasure is the highest goal, for him this pleasure meant “absence of pain” (aponia) and stillness of ...
... goal of life: Pleasure. Epicurus can hardly be regarded as representative of Aristippus' kind of hedonism. While for Epicurus “pure” pleasure is the highest goal, for him this pleasure meant “absence of pain” (aponia) and stillness of ...
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Erich Fromm. thus keeps humanity away from its real goal of absence of pain . ( Epicurus ' theory resembles Freud's in many ways . ) Nevertheless , it seems that Epicurus represented a certain kind of subjectivism contrary to Aristotle's ...
Erich Fromm. thus keeps humanity away from its real goal of absence of pain . ( Epicurus ' theory resembles Freud's in many ways . ) Nevertheless , it seems that Epicurus represented a certain kind of subjectivism contrary to Aristotle's ...
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... goal of living . As long as everybody wants to have more , there must be formations of classes , there must be class war , and in global terms , there must be international war . Greed and peace preclude each other . Radical hedonism ...
... goal of living . As long as everybody wants to have more , there must be formations of classes , there must be class war , and in global terms , there must be international war . Greed and peace preclude each other . Radical hedonism ...
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... goal is to have - and to have more and more - and in which one can speak of someone as " being worth a million dollars , " how can there be an alternative between having and being ? On the contrary , it would seem that the very essence ...
... goal is to have - and to have more and more - and in which one can speak of someone as " being worth a million dollars , " how can there be an alternative between having and being ? On the contrary , it would seem that the very essence ...
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... goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.) For many years I had been deeply impressed by this distinction and was seeking ...
... goal should be to be much, not to have much. (I refer here to the real Marx, the radical humanist, not to the vulgar forgery presented by Soviet communism.) For many years I had been deeply impressed by this distinction and was seeking ...
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