New PDF release: To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)

By Erich Fromm

ISBN-10: 0826417388

ISBN-13: 9780826417381

To Have Or to Be? is among the seminal books of the second one 1/2 the twentieth century. not anything lower than a manifesto for a brand new social and mental revolution to save lots of our threatened planet, this publication is a precis of the penetrating considered Eric Fromm. His thesis is that modes of life fight for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on fabric possessions, energy, and aggression, and is the root of the common evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, that is according to love, the excitement of sharing, and in effective task. To Have Or to Be? is an excellent software for socioeconomic switch.

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The way one reads a philosophy or history book is formed-or better, deformed-by education. The school aims to give each student a certain amount of "cultural property," and at the end of their schooling certifies the students as having at least the minimum amount. Students are taught to read a book so that they can repeat the author's main thoughts. This is how the students "know" Plato, Aristotle, D escartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Heidegger, Sartre. The difference between various levels of education from high school to graduate school is mainly in the amount of cultural property that is acquired, which corresponds roughly to the amount of material property the students may be expected to own in later life.

This new outlook has made for greater honesty-as well as more frequent change of partners. It has not neces sarily led to a greater frequency of loving, and the new partners may love as little as did the old. " (In The Art of Loving I pointed out that the word "falling" in the phrase "falling in love" is a contradiction in itself. Since loving is a productive activity, one can only stand in love or walk in love; one cannot "fall" in love, for falling denotes passivity. ) During courtship neither person is yet sure of the other, but each tries to win the other.

Unfortunately, the work has been published only in the Czech language and hence has been inaccessible to most Western readers. ) 22 A F I RST G LANCE process. ) There are many other forms of incorporation that are not connected with physiological needs and, hence, are not limited. The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. This is obvious in pathological phenomena, such as alcoholism and drug addiction.

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