“Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” by Erich Fromm Summary Disobedience in the human history began with an act of disobedience‚ Failure or refusal to obey rules or in authorities and religious faiths. Is this‚ however‚ a bad thing? Erich Fromm would argue the capacity for disobedience the condition for freedom. In Erich Fromm’s “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” Mr. Fromm described‚ People must want obey‚ instead fearing to disobey. Erich Fromm
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DISOBEDIENCE AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MORAL PROBLEM 1 “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” Erich Fromm Summaries Name Class Professor Date DISOBEDIENCE AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MORAL PROBLEM 2 “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” Erich Fromm Erich Fromm’s essay “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” suggests that humankind’s
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Summary-Response Two In Erich Fromm’s "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” he develops notions based upon the relationship of obedience and disobedience‚ and the different aspects that interfere with a person’s choice to go against power‚ and the impact that history has made on the matter. He discusses how Adam and Eve’s choice is oftentimes viewed as a means of disobeying their creator‚ but he takes a contradictory approach to say that without disobedience‚ there would be no change
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“Disobedience as a Physiological and Moral Problem‚” ‚” is written by Erich Fromm and in his 1963 essay Fromm argues that obedience is the virtue and disobedience the vice. (Fromm 403). Fromm sees disobedience as a vital to our society and that blind obedience is bad‚ and he uses many examples to try to convince us of this belief. I believe that Fromm has some very good points and makes a strong argument. I agree with many of the main points he makes and his appeal to those are used great in his
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Nikolovska 1 Summary Erich Fromm is a distinguished German writer‚ who has large interests in psychology‚ philosophy‚ sociology and history. In his essay” Disobedience as a psychological and moral problem”‚ he discusses and compares the different kinds of obedience and disobedience‚ and how they can have a positive or negative impact on the human society. In order to proof and give example for his view‚ Erich Fromm gives a very convenient reference‚ about the birth
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Is Disobedience a Psychological and Moral Problem? In his essay “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” Erich Fromm asks a question that he considers very important‚ “Why is man so prone to obey and why is it so difficult for him to disobey?” (405) He claims that disobedience is the right thing to do but obedience without questioning is bad. He claims that the history of human beings started because of acts of disobedience. He further claims that human beings continue to progress
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Erich Fromm is “one of the twentieth century’s distinguished writers and thinkers” (240). This is made apparent in his essay‚ “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” in which he describes the various types of obediences and disobediences and how they are either contributive or detrimental to humanity. Fromm argues that “human history began with an act of disobedience‚ and that it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience” (246). Since the beginning of human history
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“Human history began with an act of disobedience‚ and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience” (Fromm‚ 1981‚ ¶1). Comparing this statement to the historical idea that obedience is a virtue and disobedience is a vice is the basis of Erich Fromm’s essay entitled “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” (1981). Referencing historical and biblical accounts‚ Fromm claims that mankind was not human until the point of the first disobedient act‚ at which point the
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be. Erich Fromm writes To Have or To Be around this question but in more of a spiritual way. Fromm claims that there are two ways that people can choose to live‚ Being and Having. Fromm’s philosophy is that Having is not truly living‚ which is where “the question” is brought upon the readers. Throughout To Have or to Be‚ Fromm explains the distinctions between Being and Having‚ showing that they are clearly two different lifestyles in order to explain his idea of a new society. Fromm explains
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In his essay “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” Erich Fromm states that human history can change forever by just an act of disobedience. Fromm starts off by stating how people in power have always professed that those below them should obey rather than disobey. Fromm writes about how key ancient figures like Prometheus and Adam and Eve acted out in disobedience. Fromm also states that these figures didn’t regret their decisions nor did they ask for forgiveness. Fromm further claims
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