The Nature of Man

by Erich Fromm (editor), Ramón Xirau

Foreword
Introduction
The Upanishads --
Gautama --
Shin Ichi Hisamatsu --
The Bible --
Heraclitus --
Empedocles --
Sophocles --
Socrates and Plato --
Aristotle --
Lucretius --
Epictetus --
Plotinus --
Sextus Empiricus --
Saint Gregory of Nyssa --
Saint Augustine --
Saint Thomas Aquinas --
Meister Eckhart --
Nicolaus Cusanus --
Marsillo Ficino --
Pietro Popponazzi --
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola --
Erasmus of Rotterdam --
Martin Luther --
Thomas More --
Juan Luis Vives --
Paracelsus --
Saint Teresa of Avila --
Saint John of the Cross --
Michel de Montaine --
Rene Descartes --
Baruch Spinoza --
Blaise Pascal --
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz --
Francis Bacon --
Thomas Hobbes --
John Locke --
David Hume --
Giambattista Vico --
Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
Immanuel Kant --
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --
Johann Gottfrid Herder --
Jeremy Bentham --
Arthur Schopenhauer --
Auguste Comte --
Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Ludwig Feuerbach --
Karl Marx --
Soren Kierkegaard --
Friedrch Nietzsche --
William James --
John Dewey --
Sigmund Freud --
Carl Gustav Jung --
Henri Bergson --
Edmund Husserl --
Alfred North Whitehead --
Miguel de Unamuno --
Antonio Machado --
Max Scheler --
Nicolas Berdyaev --
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin --
Jose Ortega y Gasset --
Martin Heidegger --
Francisco Romero --
Lewis Mumford --
Erich Fromm --
Jean Paul Sartre --
Simone Weil --
Edith Stein --
Adam Schaff --
David Riesman
Bibliography

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy

349 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1968

About the author

Erich Fromm, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Heidelberg, 1922) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Fromm explored the interaction between psychology and society, and held various professorships in psychology in the U.S. and Mexico in the mid-20th century.

Fromm's theory is a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazingly, I never get tired of Socrates, Aristotle, and the Athenian philosophy. These were artists for arts sake, and thinkers for the sake of thought.