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    Jan 23, 2018 2 minutes

    Life Between Having and Being

    Erich Fromm

    The supreme goal

    The alternative of having versus being does not appeal to common sense. To have, so it would seem, is a normal function of our life: in order to live we must have things. Moreover, we must have things in order to enjoy them. In a culture in which

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