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Index
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
I. The Problem
II. Humanistic Ethics: The Applied Science of the Art of Living
1. Humanistic vs. Authoritarian Ethics
2. Subjectivistic vs. Objectivistic Ethics
3. The Science of Man
4. The Tradition of Humanistic Ethics
5. Ethics and Psychoanalysis
III. Human Nature and Character
1. The Human Situation
a. Man's Biological Weakness
b. The Existential and the Historical Dichotomies in Man
2. Personality
a. Temperament
b. Character
(1) The Dynamic Concept of Character
(2) Types of Character: The Nonproductive Orientations
(a) The Receptive Orientation
(b) The Exploitative Orientation
(c) he Hoarding Orientation
(d) The Marketing Orientation
(3) The Productive Orientation
(a) General Characteristics
(b) Productive Love and Thinking
(4) Orientations in the Process of Socialization
(5) Blends of Various Orientations
IV. Problems of Humanistic Ethics
1. Selfishness, Self-Love, and Self-Interest
2. Conscience, Man's Recall to Himself
a. Authoritarian Conscience
b. Humanistic Conscience
3. Pleasure and Happiness
a. Pleasure as a Criterion of Value
b. Types of Pleasure
c. The Problem of Means and Ends
4. Faith as a Character Trait
5. The Moral Powers in Man
a. Man, Good or Evil?
b. Repression vs. Productiveness
c. Character and Moral Judgment
6. Absolute vs. Relative, Universal vs. Socially Immanent Ethics
V. The Moral Problem of Today
Index
Notes
A Biography of Erich Fromm
Copyright
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