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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... kind of hedonism. While for Epicurus “pure” pleasure is the highest goal, for him this pleasure meant “absence of pain” (aponia) and stillness of the soul (ataraxia). According to Epicurus, pleasure as satisfaction of a desire cannot be ...
... kind of hedonism. While for Epicurus “pure” pleasure is the highest goal, for him this pleasure meant “absence of pain” (aponia) and stillness of the soul (ataraxia). According to Epicurus, pleasure as satisfaction of a desire cannot be ...
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... kind of subjectivism contrary to Aristotle's position , as far as the contradictory reports on Epicurus ' statement permit a definite interpretation . None of the other great Masters taught that the factual existence of a desire ...
... kind of subjectivism contrary to Aristotle's position , as far as the contradictory reports on Epicurus ' statement permit a definite interpretation . None of the other great Masters taught that the factual existence of a desire ...
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... Theoretical considerations demonstrate that radical hedonism cannot lead to happiness as well as why it cannot do so, given human nature. But even without theoretical analysis the observable data show most clearly that our kind of.
... Theoretical considerations demonstrate that radical hedonism cannot lead to happiness as well as why it cannot do so, given human nature. But even without theoretical analysis the observable data show most clearly that our kind of.
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Erich Fromm. the observable data show most clearly that our kind of “pursuit of happiness” does not produce well-being. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent—people who are ...
Erich Fromm. the observable data show most clearly that our kind of “pursuit of happiness” does not produce well-being. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent—people who are ...
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... kind human being everybody pretends to be . The passion for having must lead to never - ending class war . The pretense of the communists that their system will end class struggle by abolishing classes is fiction , for their system is ...
... kind human being everybody pretends to be . The passion for having must lead to never - ending class war . The pretense of the communists that their system will end class struggle by abolishing classes is fiction , for their system is ...
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