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Erich Fromm
(1978)
Kobori Sohaku is one of the few Zen Masters in all history charged with responsibility to communicate the insights of Zen to Westerners. An interview with Koborisan revealed: (1) westerners have not understood that yes and no are one; (2) Zen cannot be understood by reading only; one must use the third eye of religion; (3) psychology, especially FROMM and Jung, is more important for understanding Zen than art, literature or philosophy; and (4) to understand Zen, sitting (zazen, meditation) must be added to reading.
Cuatro imagines filosoficos de la plenitud humana [Four Philosophical Models of Human Perfection,
(1978)
Man is such a complex creature that it is impossible to grasp all possible facets of human perfection from the perspective of one philosophical system alone. The Marxist view of man has value for the dynamics it discerns in human history. The dialogical humanism of Scheler, Ebner, Buber, Marcel, Guardini, Brunner, etc., offers valid insights into the way in which the individual must be open to other men, to an awareness of the other. The psychoanalytic humanism of Freud demythologizes any other-emphasis on the primacy of reason in human affairs, and with the correctives of FROMM and others leads to a basic understanding of human nature. A Thomistic humanism based on natural law, finally, offers a metaphysics in terms of which these various models of man can be integrated to provide a balanced view of human perfectability.