The Conscience-less Society and Beyond: Perspectives from Erich Fromm and Paul Tillich
- 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.
Author: | G. B. Hammond |
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Parent Title (English): | Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, Berlin Vol. 25 (1983), pp. 20-32. |
Document Type: | Articles |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 1983 |
Release Date: | 2012/12/13 |
Format: | PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage |
IdNo: | Hammond_G_B_1983 |
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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