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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... Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being Examples in Various Poetic Expressions Idiomatic Changes Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of Being Having and Consuming II. Having and Being in Daily Experience Learning ...
... Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being Examples in Various Poetic Expressions Idiomatic Changes Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of Being Having and Consuming II. Having and Being in Daily Experience Learning ...
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... important than I used to think . On one point only have we been unable to agree in our approach to sexism in language , namely in respect to the word " man " as the term of reference for the species Homo Sapiens . The use of " man " in ...
... important than I used to think . On one point only have we been unable to agree in our approach to sexism in language , namely in respect to the word " man " as the term of reference for the species Homo Sapiens . The use of " man " in ...
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... importance is another factor : people's relation to nature became deeply hostile . Being " freaks of nature " who by the very conditions of our existence are within nature and by the gift of our reason transcend it , we have tried to ...
... importance is another factor : people's relation to nature became deeply hostile . Being " freaks of nature " who by the very conditions of our existence are within nature and by the gift of our reason transcend it , we have tried to ...
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... conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them. Yet nothing of real importance happens; but both the Is There an Alternative to Catastrophe?
... conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them. Yet nothing of real importance happens; but both the Is There an Alternative to Catastrophe?
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Erich Fromm. them. Yet nothing of real importance happens; but both the leaders and the led anesthetize their consciences and their wish for survival by giving the appearance of knowing the road and marching in the right direction ...
Erich Fromm. them. Yet nothing of real importance happens; but both the leaders and the led anesthetize their consciences and their wish for survival by giving the appearance of knowing the road and marching in the right direction ...
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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