Main concepts

  • irrational authority
  • link between psychology and ethics
  • productive man
  • ethical relativism in modern psychology
  • authoritarian ethics vs. humanistic ethics.
  • humanistic norms vs. authoritarian norms
  • freedom as a fundamental part of human nature
  • The social unconscious
  • Humanism
  • Social analysis
  • Personality orientations
  • Theory of human needs
  • anti-social behavior as response to unfulfilling/negating social environments
  • characters: receptive, exploitative, hoarding, marketing, productive
  • connection between ethics and psychology through character and personality
  • foundation upon which a science of man too could eventually be built
  • moral relativity trap
  • ethics cannot be divorced from psychology
  • biophilia
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