Erich Fromm

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This paper describes Erich Fromm's perspective on freedom, love, dignity and human nature. The paper explains that, in addition to his professional training and personal philosophy, Fromm's life experiences contributed to his belief that technology, while not a bad thing in itself, can be used in such a way to dehumanize and distort human behavior when it falls into the hands of people who lose the desire to be free and then use that technology to spread their own philosophies.

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"This was not just an idle question posed by a man who had read a thought-provoking book. It goes to the heart of what Erich Fromm believed about human beings -- not only based on his professional training and personal philosophy, but based as well on some of his life experiences, because Fromm had a ringside seat to two of the most horrific events ever to take place on earth: World War I and World War II. In World War I he saw, as a young man, the first "modern" war. In World War I, countries used mechanized tanks and airplanes as well as other machine-based inventions to fight one of the most destructive wars ever waged on the planet. Fromm saw large-bore guns used to deliver poison gas to the enemy, the first efficient use of chemical warfare."

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