@misc{Liu, author = {Liu, Chuanqi}, title = {An Exploration of Fromm's Humanology Thought [弗洛姆人学思想探本], Master thesis, Marxist Philosophy, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China 2011.}, abstract = {Erich Fromm is one of the most prominent humanism thinkers in the twentieth century. Generally speaking, his doctrine is one kind of humanism religion. Fromm kept on writing all his lifetime and published plenty of books. His research is mainly on issues around people and he developed a wealth of humanology theory based on his human nature theory which is the core theory and foundation of his whole thought. This paper attempts to explore Fromm's humanology theory focusing on his human nature thought. This article is divided into three parts.- In the first part, we investigate Fromm's personal experience, social background, and the theoretical origin of his humanology theory. To accurately understand a person's thinking, a biographical book is required. So, to explore Fromm's humanology thought, we must investigate Fromm's personal experience, social background, and the theoretical origin first of all. This paper argues that Fromm's personal experience, especially his family tradition has a decisive influence on the formation of Fromm's humanology thought. This is reflected in the following areas: the setting of human values by Fromm directly comes from prophets' Jewish that he accepted in his early years; The religiousness is also directly from Jewish-Christian religion, which is the fundamental character of his humanology thought. The decisive role of personal experience is linked to the origin of his humanology theory. Fromm's theorical origins include the prophets' Judaism, Marx's theory on human emancipation, Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Bachofen's matriarchal theory, Zen and so on. Among these theoretical origins, prophets' Judaism decides the fundamental characteristics and the content of his humanology thought with his personal experience.- In the second part, we investigate the content of Fromm's humanology thought from the viewpoint of human nature. First of all, we note Fromm's research methods: the overall approach and empirical methods. This part mainly focus on his human nature, human needs, the sinking of people, how to save the people sunk. Besides, We also research his theory of social characters and social unconscious in this part. Fromm definited human nature as his relation to existential dichotomies which caused the division. Contradictions of human existence lead to five spiritual needs: the need for unity, the need for surpassing, the needs of roots, the need of identity sense, the need for orientation and devotion. Human being continually generates as he solve the existential dichotomies that cannot be removed. To meet the needs caused by the existential dichotomies, people keep on probing, in which process people stray into the wrong track. People fall into the sunk state. This is reflected on two sides: to escape from freedom, full of destructiveness, tending to possess all of which are in the internal dimension; alienation in the external dimension. Faced to this sunk state of human beings, Fromm presented the general program for the humanitarian rescue. Fromm argued that we should develop the way of life preferring to being through playing the role of brilliance of human nature such as love, rationality and creativeness, which is his spirit reform, as well as social reform in political, economic, cultural and other fields at the same time. In addition, this article makes efforts to study Fromm's theory on the destructiveness issue. Through multidisciplinary study, Fromm argued that people inherently have aggressive defense, but destructiveness which is a sort of vicious violations is just the result of the development of human civilization. Consequently, we should adjust our civilization to quell the destructive tendencies.- In the third part, we make some comments on Fromm's humanology thought based on Marxism. First, the paper argues that Fromm's humanology theory has three notable features: human value pre-set, purely religious and realistic Utopianism. Secondly, in the Marxist view, Fromm's humanology theory goes with significant limitations in the following aspects: mistakes in the definition of human nature, the fallacy of the human nature drive force theory on historical kinetic issue, the fantasy of rescuing human beings plan.}, language = {zh} }