To Have or To Be? by Fromm Erich

Author:Fromm, Erich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

* This is the limitation of even the best psychology, a point I have discussed in detail, comparing “negative psychology” and “negative theology” in an essay, “On the Limitations and Dangers of Psychology” (1959).

* I used the terms “spontaneous activity” in Escape from Freedom and “productive activity” in my later writings.

* The writings of W. Lange, N. Lobkowicz, and D. Mieth (1971) can provide further insights into this problem of contemplative life and active life.

* I have dealt with some of this evidence in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.

* In his forthcoming book The Gamesmen: The New Corporate Leaders. (which I was privileged to read in manuscript), Michael Maccoby mentions some recent democratic participatory projects, especially his own research in The Bolivar Project. Bolivar is dealt with in the working papers on that project and will be the subject, along with another project, of a larger work that Maccoby is presently planning.

* One of the most important sources for understanding the natural human impulse to give and to share is P. A. Kropotkin’s classic, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902). Two other important works are The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy. by Richard Titmuss (in which he points to the manifestations of the people’s wish to give, and stresses that our economic system prevents people from freely exercising their right to give), and Edmund S. Phelps, ed., Altruism, Morality and Economic Theory.

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