Review Fromm, E.: Man for Himself. An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (1947a, English)
- […] 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)
MetadatenAuthor: | George Kimmelman |
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Parent Title (English): | The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Vol. 43, No. 4 (1948), pp., 555-557. [Online ISBN 2769-755X] [doi.org/10.1037/h0051918] |
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Document Type: | Reviews |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1948 |
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Release Date: | 2024/04/04 |
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Format: | to purchase via publisher |
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IdNo: | Kimmelman_G_1948a |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Reviews / Rezensionen |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Reviews / Rezensionen |
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