Contents

The problem

Humanistic ethics: The applied science of the art of living

  • Humanistic vs. Authoritarian ethics
  • Subjectivistic vs. objectivistic ethics
  • The science of man
  • The tradition of humanistic ethics
  • Ethics and psychoanalysis

Human nature and character

  • The human situation
    • Man's biological weakness
    • The existential and the historical dichotomies in man
  • Personality
    • Temperament
    • Character
      • The dynamic concept of character
      • Types of character: the nonproductive orientations
        • The receptive orientation
        • The exploitative orientation
        • The hoarding orientation
        • The marketing orientation
      • The productive orientation
        • General characteristics
        • Productive love and thinking
      • Orientations in the process of socialization
      • Blends of various orientations

Problems of humanistic ethics

  • Selfishness, self-love, and self-interest
  • Conscience, man's recall to himself
    • Authoritarian conscience
    • Humanistic conscience
  • Pleasure and happiness
    • Pleasure as a criterion of value
    • Types of pleasure
    • The problem of means and ends
  • Faith as a character trait
  • The moral powers in man
    • Man, good or evil?
    • Repression vs productiveness
    • Character and moral judgment
  • Absolute vs relative, universal vs. socially immanent ethics

The moral problem of today

 

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Open parent cardset ("Man for himself - An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (by Erich Fromm)")