Erich Fromm (1900-80) Conscience
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- Erich Fromm (1900-80)
- 1. Principle disciples of Freud & marxist
- Influenced fused together his work on morality
- 2. Centre view of humanity
- This free will is an illusion. From birth humans are reduced into a state of obedience to forces that individuals cannot see
- Humans imagine that they are free
- They imagine they have a choice
- Imagine their moral values are personal
- 3. The importance of Freud and Marx
- Both show that humans cannot control their own lives,
- Different but complementary ways
- 7. TINA Principle 'There Is No Alternative'
- Modern liberal states are less candid
- Adverts, politician and scientists convince people there is no alternative
- The Medieval Church & modern Nazi ideology told people what to believe
- Public opinion creates a liberal society's moral conscience
- People are induced into believing that they control their lives but they cannot
- Modern liberal states are less candid
- 5. Two processes work in tandem
- 2. This removal of individuality creates a social consciousness that makes people aware of who they are & to which group the belong
- 1. The individual is is given a social character which is made to fit into the need s of society
- 6. Authoritarian conscience
- F. believed in the Middle Ages the Church created this social character
- The state become the means which people identified themselves
- In Nazi Germany the Jews were considered & treated less than human - they weren't part of the social consciousness of the German people
- F. believed in the Middle Ages the Church created this social character
- 4. Fromm believed
- The child is moulded by the needs of the society through the family
- The process of controlling begins at birth
- Parents control their children
- 1. Principle disciples of Freud & marxist
- 4. Fromm believed
- The child is moulded by the needs of the society through the family
- The process of controlling begins at birth
- Parents control their children
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