From "Sick Man" To "Sane Man"

This dissertation sets the historical background on the twice World War, the Economical Crisis in1929and Cold War, and discusses Fromm’s Social Critique Theory study Fromm’s thought on how to shape a sane people.The whole text contain the five parts below.The preface concisely narrates the reasons of the proposed topic,the research status internally and abroad, the methods and innovations of the research, several basic concepts, and the main contents.Chapter one mainly describes the formation of Fromm’s Social Critique Theory, which divides into two sections. The first discusses the social situation of the human beings in twentieth century. The second describes Fromm’s lifetime,including his life experience and academic study.Chapter two and the chapter three describes the main contents of Fromm’s Social Critique Theory. Chapter two mainly discusses one sane people how to become a sick people, which divides into three sections. The first describes Fromm’s understanding of human nature; the second describes Fromm’s definition and essence of sane people; the third describes Fromm’s understanding on sick people and studies the reasons about the sick people, including:social filter, restriction of authority, the freedom of escaping and human’s alienation.Chapter three describes Fromm’s blueprint on how to shape a free and sane people, which divides into two sections. The first mainly discusses the precondition of shaping a sane people that is the construction by oneself; the second mainly discusses mankind how attain freedom in order to become a sane people, which includes the reconstruction of the sane society, the realization of self and g the attainment of love.The peroration briefly states the profound influence and the limits of Fromm’s Social Critique Theory, and its great enlightenment and warning to modern China.