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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... UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING I. A First Glance The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being Examples in Various Poetic Expressions Idiomatic Changes Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of ...
... UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING I. A First Glance The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being Examples in Various Poetic Expressions Idiomatic Changes Origin of the Terms Philosophical Concepts of ...
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... understanding of fine points of Christian theology; he was untiring in pointing to literature in the field of theology; he read the manuscript several times and his excellent constructive suggestions as well as his critique helped ...
... understanding of fine points of Christian theology; he was untiring in pointing to literature in the field of theology; he read the manuscript several times and his excellent constructive suggestions as well as his critique helped ...
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... understand the trauma that realization of its failure is producing today. For the industrial age has indeed failed to fulfill its Great Promise, and ever growing numbers of people are becoming aware that: Unrestricted satisfaction of ...
... understand the trauma that realization of its failure is producing today. For the industrial age has indeed failed to fulfill its Great Promise, and ever growing numbers of people are becoming aware that: Unrestricted satisfaction of ...
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... address themselves to the possibilities of alternatives to debilitating individual ill-being, and to catastrophic socioeconomic development of the whole world. PART ONE UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING I.
... address themselves to the possibilities of alternatives to debilitating individual ill-being, and to catastrophic socioeconomic development of the whole world. PART ONE UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING I.
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Erich Fromm. PART ONE UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING I. A First Glance The Importance of the Difference Between PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING.
Erich Fromm. PART ONE UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING I. A First Glance The Importance of the Difference Between PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING AND BEING.
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