« Work must not be, as it is too often, an activity that makes us forget the problems specific to the human situation, it must be a "spontaneous activity" in which the creative dynamism of the individual is expressed in the present. »
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Erich Fromm
Alienated society and healthy society |
Erich Fromm
Alienated society and healthy society
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« "Individualism" which, in its positive sense, implies the liberation of social chains, means, in its negative sense, "self-ownership", the right, and the duty to invest one's energy in one's own success. In the way of having existence, everyone derives his happiness from his superiority over others, from his own power and, ultimately, from the ability to conquer, to steal, to kill. In the mode of existence, happiness is based on love, sharing, giving. »
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Erich Fromm
Have or be |
Erich Fromm
Have or be
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« Our education generally strives to train individuals to have knowledge, as possessions, by proportionateing them overall to the amount of material goods and social prestige they will have in their lives. The minimum they receive is the amount they will need to be able to behave properly in their work. Each person receives a "luxury knowledge" that reinforces the feeling of his worth, the size of this baggage being related to the likely social prestige of the individual. Schools are the factories where these bags are produced as a whole, although they usually claim to put students in touch with the highest accomplishments of the human spirit. »
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Erich Fromm
Have or be |
Erich Fromm
Have or be
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