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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... problem of human existence. For the first time in history the satisfaction of the pleasure drive is not only the privilege of a minority but is possible for more than half the population in the industrialized countries. The experiment ...
... problem of human existence. For the first time in history the satisfaction of the pleasure drive is not only the privilege of a minority but is possible for more than half the population in the industrialized countries. The experiment ...
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... problem by giving up the Messianic vision of harmony between humankind and nature by conquering nature , by transforming it to our own purposes until the conquest has become more and more equivalent to destruction. Our spirit of.
... problem by giving up the Messianic vision of harmony between humankind and nature by conquering nature , by transforming it to our own purposes until the conquest has become more and more equivalent to destruction. Our spirit of.
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... , 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?
... , 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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... problems of social reconstruction will not , even if only partly , take the place of the preoccupation of our best minds with science and technique , the imagination will be lacking to visualize new and realistic alternatives . The main ...
... problems of social reconstruction will not , even if only partly , take the place of the preoccupation of our best minds with science and technique , the imagination will be lacking to visualize new and realistic alternatives . The main ...
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... problem of existence; that empirical anthropological and psychoanalytic data tend to demonstrate that having and being are two fundamental modes of experience, the respective strengths of which determine the differences between the ...
... problem of existence; that empirical anthropological and psychoanalytic data tend to demonstrate that having and being are two fundamental modes of experience, the respective strengths of which determine the differences between the ...
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