The illusion of individuality:
Fromm declares at the beginning of this chapter that the current era we live in, is when more freedom was achieved, thanks to modern democracy breaking the links to any type of po der
In education, the prevailing importance of the information, and the more knowledge you have better you can know the reality, information is given without theory and this causes a number of consequences, like relativism, another way to cripple the ability to think critically. We find in the destruction of all structured image of the world because the facts lose value but belong to an overall structure. Fromm also raises the question about our being still exists and grows ever wider. There is a drop of spontaneity and individuality,
In conclusion, the modern man is deeply unhappy ; on the brink of despair.
Freedom and spontaneity:
According to Fromm The process of development of freedom is not a vicious circle, and that man can be free without being alone. There is a positive freedom is the spontaneous activity of the total integrated personality. This spontaneous activity is free activity of I (full free exercise of will), is the only way for man to overcome the terror of loneliness without sacrificing the integrity of the self. The components of spontaneity are love and work, activities that result from our spontaneous activity give strength to me and form the basis of their integrity beyond the individual no longer feels isolated in the world, becomes a structural part of a whole . Fromm
advocates a new order, democratic socialism
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