Homo Consumens versus Homo Patiens (The Dilemmas of Postmodern Reality)

  • The contemporary >homo consumens< does not want to accept that his ontic status is still best defined by the words >homo patiens<. Today’s attempts to eliminate suffering through constantly stimulated consumption may be considered as an act of the >degradation< of humans and humanity who by rejecting the truth about their nature as suffering creatures, paradoxically also lose the meaning of their life. If one denies suffering, then – at the same time – one closes oneself before life. For the escape from suffering is anything but the escape from life, at least the one that is experienced in a conscious and sensible way.

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Author:Zbigniew Bajda
Parent Title (English):The Person and the Challenges, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2020), pp. 17-28. [Online ISSN 2391-6559] [czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/3609/3497]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Release Date:2024/11/29
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Bajda_Z_2020
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):free access / direkt zugänglich
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