TY - JOUR A1 - Kimmelman, George T1 - Review Fromm, E.: Man for Himself. An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (1947a, English) JF - The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol. 43, No. 4 (1948), pp., 555-557. [Online ISBN 2769-755X] [doi.org/10.1037/h0051918] N2 - […] Erich Fromm's latest work is an ambitious attempt to synthesize psychoanalysis and ethics by grounding the norms of the latter in the integrated personality. The ethical agent is characterized by a >productive orientation< which permits him to realize his constructive potentialities in thought, work, and love. Virtue consists in recognizing his obligation to his mature self; vice, in denying his obligation and therefore >mutilating< his thwarted self. The good life finds itself validated not by authoritarian dogma or supernatural sanction but by man's constructive needs and aspirations as disclosed in the findings of psychology and anthropology. Fromm's position, therefore, allies him not only with those rationalists and humanists whose ethical orientation is anthropocentric in the best sense of the word but also with the modern naturalists who maintain that ethical judgments can be the subject matter of a scientific morality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 1948 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kimmelman, George T1 - Moral maturity and psychology JF - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol.18, No. 3 (1948), pp. 552-554. [Online ISSN 1939-0025] [doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1948.tb05117.x] N2 - Comments on the book >Man for Himself< by Erich Fromm […] Hose, who enjoyed the provocative manipulation of psychological concepts in >Escape from Freedom< no doubt will be further rewarded by Fromm's continued exploration of contemporary character-structure, but they will find little, to enlighten them on ethical theory and practice. Fromm's book is an ambitious attempt to synthesize psychoanalysis and ethics by grounding the norms of the latter in the integrated personality. The ethical agent is characterized by a >productive orientation< which permits him to realize his constructive potentialities in thought, work, and love. One of the defects of the book is the absence of any specific societal program which can affect the integrated personality. Another defect lies in a dereliction which the author shares, with all other humanists and naturalists who have dealt with ethics; i.e., the lack of emphasis upon the implicit moral character of the sciences themselves. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 1948 ER -