To Have Or to Be?Bantam Books, 1981 - 203 pages To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change. |
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HAVING AND BEING IN DAILY | 17 |
HAVING AND BEING IN THE OLD | 37 |
PART TWO ANALYZING THE FUNDAMENTAL | 55 |
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achieve activity alienated alive Aristippus authority aware become behavior believe Blakney bureaucratic capitalism century character structure Christian Club of Rome concept consumer consumption craving culture desire disobedience economic Epicurus ERICH FROMM ethical experience expressed fact faith fascism fear feel freedom Freud Fritjof Capra function give goal greed hedonism Heinz Pagels hence hero human nature humanist ideas idol illusions individual industrial inner Jesus John Gribbin knowledge leaders living marketing character Marx Marx's Master Eckhart means mode of existence nations nomic nontheistic object one's oneself orientation participatory democracy passivity person philosophical pleasure political possession principle problem productive qualities radical reality reason religion religious repressed rooted selfishness sense sexual Shabbat Sheldon Kopp social character society solidarity Spinoza spirit Talmud things thinking Thomas Aquinas thought tion truth understand well-being word World Perspectives