Rate the Ad: British Humanist Association: Atheist Bus Campaign Oct 24, 2008
" First of all, what society resents is anyone forcing their thinking onto someone else, and secondly using the word "probably" will only make believers cling more tightly to their beliefs and reject the BHA's ham-fisted assertion. By Lily October 23rd, 2008 3:05 am: Non-religious belief systems should have the same ad rights, but Dawkins seems 'heavy handed' himself, and so does the ad....seems like it's preaching to it's own choir of "atheist-humanists"....if I were religious it would annoy me... (Creativity)
A minor offence Oct 8, 2008
au Jack Marx Live Blog. Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 09:04am. (NEWS.com.au)
Lessons from the Stanford Prison Ex... Sep 19, 2008
Some psychologists, such as Erich Fromm, rejected Zimbardo s Prison Experiment conclusion that some destructive human behavior is due to a situational response rather than innate traits or personality. In The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (Fawcett Books, 1973), Fromm points out the Prison experiment volunteers were only evaluated by themselves. (Suite101.com)
Paying kids to study May 6, 2008
Your source of information and conversation about education in Georgia and the nation. Get recipes by e-mail and practical options for takeout and delivery, all at NEW. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The trouble with Western art today Dec 20, 2007
It's how you get material and form together to have an aesthetic effect and satisfy what Erich Fromm calls existential needs' that's desperately needed in our society, says Professor Kuspit. There's a need for an art that becomes a model for integration and maturity, an art that speaks to adults with subtle reflectiveness. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
America's Greediest Cities Dec 2, 2007
St. Thomas Aquinas called greed "a sin against God." And social theorist Erich Fromm called it "a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.". But if we take greed at its most basic definition--a desire for material wealth that goes beyond the norm--then we have to face the fact that we need the greedy. (Forbes)
Taking Sides in a Tasing Sep 21, 2007
Erich Fromm suggested there was a need by some to be swallowed by a greater power (the body politic) to feel safe when one felt small. I ll quote a nice passage from Wikipedia that I think illuminates what might be the underlying issues here. (New York Times)
Adamovsky: Radical Ethics of Equality Jun 22, 2007
Nevertheless, even these authors recognise that Marxs attitude profoundly marked the Marxist tradition, which from that point on maintained hostility towards any ethical discourse (with the exception of a marginal variant of ethical Marxism, represented by authors such as Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Henri Lefebvre, or Mihailo Markovic). Karl Kautsky, the principal Marxist theorist of the Second International, dedicated his book Ethics and the materialist concept of... (Zmag.org)
The sick society Jan 27, 2007
As the sociologist Erich Fromm would have put it, we have moved from a state of "being" to a state of "having". Now we are obsessed with what other people think of us, and we've lost touch with our own feelings. (Guardian Unlimited)
