Study On Fromm's Thoughts About Humanization Of Technological Society

Fromm, as a world -famous thinker, born in Frankfurt, German, devoted his whole life in exposing and criticizing various disadvantages coming from industrial society and technological society. He maintained that it was a morbid society which based in the inhumane development of technological society. If we want to develop a sane society, the first thing we should do is to control the technology by human himself. So, the excavation to human nature and the criticism to technology were the main components of Fromm's humanistic ethics. In THE REVOLUTION OF HOPE -Toward a humanized Technology, published in 1968, he discussed this theory in details from the angle of psychology and sociology. This is a new method of philosophy of technology studying. During studying Fromm's thoughts, firstly, analyzing the conditions of technological society, describing the influence of technological society to human, then analyzing the reasons of this inhumane, at last, he put forward the steps to the humanization. The main goal of Fromm's thought was to develop a sane society which highest target was human's well-being, freedom and whole development.