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To Have or to Be?
“Marx wrote (in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts) that ‘free conscious activity’ (i.e., human activity) is ‘the species character of man.’ Labor, for him, repre… more →
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To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “Marx wrote (in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts) that ‘free conscious activit … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “For Spinoza, mental health is, in the last analysis, a manifestation of right living; mental … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: Only to the extent that we decrease the mode of having, that is of nonbeing – i.e., stop findi … more →
To Have or to Be?
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daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “Perhaps the being mode may best be described in a symbol suggested to me by Max Hunziger: A b … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “Having refers to things and things are fixed and describable. Being refers to experience, and … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “Human beings have a specific structure – like any other species – and can grow on … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “What is restricted is the free, spontaneous expression of the infant’s, the child … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “In the having mode, there is no alive relationship between me and what I have. It and I have … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “The sentence ‘I have something’ expresses the relation between the subject, I (or … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “The nature of the having mode of existence follows from the nature of private property. In th … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “Perhaps the most striking example of today’s consumer-buying phenomenon is the private … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 3 months ago: “Our ego is the most important object of our property feeling, for it comprises many things: o … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “During courtship neither person is yet sure of the other, but each tries to win the other. Bo … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “God, originally a symbol for the highest value that we can experience within us, becomes, in … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “Our understanding of the quality of knowing in the being mode of existence can be enhanced by … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “Rational authority is based on competence, and it helps the person who leans on it to grow. I … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “While the having persons rely on what they have, the being persons rely on the fact that they … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is e … more →
To Have or to Be?
daxdefranco wrote 4 months ago: “A noun is the proper denotation for a thing. I can say that I have things: for instance that … more →
