TY - JOUR A1 - Hammond, G. B. T1 - The Conscience-less Society and Beyond: Perspectives from Erich Fromm and Paul Tillich T2 - Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, Berlin Vol. 25 (1983), pp. 20-32. N2 - Recent discussions of the dominant Western character-type have focused on the decline of patriarchal conscience. The author compares Erich FROMM and Paul Tillich on these themes: characteristics of the bourgeois Protestant patriarchal conscience; the significance of its decline; and prescribed paths beyond it. Both regard the bourgeois Protestant type as unstable, needing either a regressive or a progressive solution to isolation. FROMM's progressive solution is humanistic conscience, returning to matriarchy on a higher level. Tillich sees FROMM's >human nature< as abstract; he seeks instead a connection between tradition and criticism, showing that patriarchy becomes self-critical in patriarchal religion. Like FROMM he restores matriarchy in his religion of grace. Y1 - 1983 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11424 ER -