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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... Social Character Social Character and " Religious " Needs Is the Western World Christian ? The Humanist Protest VIII . Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man The New Man IX . Features of the New Society A New ...
... Social Character Social Character and " Religious " Needs Is the Western World Christian ? The Humanist Protest VIII . Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man The New Man IX . Features of the New Society A New ...
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... social analysis of the two modes of existence. I recommend the books by Marcel and Staehelin to readers who are sufficiently interested in the topic. (I did not know of the existence of a published English translation of Marcel's book ...
... social analysis of the two modes of existence. I recommend the books by Marcel and Staehelin to readers who are sufficiently interested in the topic. (I did not know of the existence of a published English translation of Marcel's book ...
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... social experiment ever made to solve the question whether pleasure (as a passive affect in contrast to the active affect, well-being and joy) can be a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. For the first time in history ...
... social experiment ever made to solve the question whether pleasure (as a passive affect in contrast to the active affect, well-being and joy) can be a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. For the first time in history ...
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... social circumstances . Not least in 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 ...
... social circumstances . Not least in 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 ...
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... social factors, without which no realistic plan can possibly be made. Yet they present valuable data, and for the ... social order makes us sick, and that we are headed for an economic catastrophe unless we radically change our social ...
... social factors, without which no realistic plan can possibly be made. Yet they present valuable data, and for the ... social order makes us sick, and that we are headed for an economic catastrophe unless we radically change our social ...
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