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.
Metadaten| Author: | Zbigniew Bajda |
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| 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] |
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| Document Type: | Articles |
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
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| Release Date: | 2024/11/29 |
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| Format: | PDF-file to download |
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| IdNo: | Bajda_Z_2020 |
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| Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
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| Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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| Licence (German): | free access / direkt zugänglich |
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