Erich Fromm fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual. He also recognized that fundamental to this pursuit is the promotion of self-knowledge. In encouraging people to analyze their own behavior, Fromm identified the crucial link between psychology and ethics that underpins all our actions. Moreover, he saw in this a way out of the meaningless impasse which he regarded as the plight of the modern human race. The task that Fromm sets himself, therefore, in Man for Himself is no less than to identify ...
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Erich Fromm fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual. He also recognized that fundamental to this pursuit is the promotion of self-knowledge. In encouraging people to analyze their own behavior, Fromm identified the crucial link between psychology and ethics that underpins all our actions. Moreover, he saw in this a way out of the meaningless impasse which he regarded as the plight of the modern human race. The task that Fromm sets himself, therefore, in Man for Himself is no less than to identify "what man is, how he ought to live, and how the tremendous energies within man can be released and used productively." The resulting book is ample witness to Fromm's success. It makes for exciting, illuminating, even life-changing reading.
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The book is theoretical attempt to clarify the problem of ethics and psychology; its aim is to make the reader question himself rather than to pacify him. The book does not contain a recipe for integrated and autonomous person to achieve a life of a joy and happiness. Dr. Fromm studies the myths and overstatements of different human qualities: self-love and selfishness, satisfaction and happiness. He explains why some of Freud's concepts are deficient to understand all forms of productive love: care, responsibility, respect and knowledge. Dr. Fromm tries to explain human personality, character and temperament not because he is interesting about human nature, but because he tries to understand and explain what qualities human can develop to perform man's main task in life ? to give birth to himself. The moral problem is man's indifference to himself. Man is the only being who is capable of understanding the very forces which he is subjected to and who by his understanding can take an active part in his own fate and strengthen those elements which strive for the good. Man is the only creature endowed with conscience. Dr. Fromm explores two types of conscience: authoritarian (?voice? of an internalized external authority) and humanistic (?voice? which calls human back to himself). He explains that everybody has both ?consciences?. The problem is to distinguish their respective and their interrelation. He says that humanistic ethics takes the position that if man is alive he knows what is allowed; and to be alive means to be productive, to use one's powers not for any purpose transcending man, but for oneself, to make sense of one's existence, to be human.
