An Inquiry Into Fromm’s Human Nature Thought And Value Of Times

Erich Fromm is a famous German-American humanism philosopher, psychoanalyst andsociologist, and an important representative member of the Frankfurt School in the20th century.He is known as "mind clairvoyant of the20th century ","one of the most influential thinkers ofthe century".This article is divided into three chapters：The first chapter elaborates the generation context of Fromm’s human nature thought. Firstof all, his humanity thought originates under the background of humanitarian andanti-humanitarian argument; Secondly, his humanity thought responds the debate of whichMarxism is scientific socialism or humanitarian; Last, Fromm’s human nature thought isbeyond relativism and absolutism of human nature.The second chapter aims at analyzing the main content of Fromm’s human nature thoughtfrom the following three aspects. The first explores the theoretical origin of Fromm’s humannature thought. His human nature thought is not a simple comprehensive Freud and Marx’sthought, but is based on Marx’s historical materialism sublation of Freud’s psychoanalysis;simultaneously, the Judaism and the value pursuit of Oriental Zen penetrate into his humannature thought. The second emphasizes on the main content of Fromm’s human nature thought.People’s survival situation is the logical beginning, and analyzes three pairs of contradictionsthat the birth and death, limited life and unlimited potential, individualization and loneliness.People constantly seek ways to solve these contradictions, result in the need of the people.Finally, special emphasis is the role of social character and social unconscious in the process ofdevelopment of society.The third chapter is devoted to reveal the people’s alienation in contemporary industrialsociety. We analyze several typical personality of alienation, explore how to realize humanliberation, human freedom and human general development.The fourth chapter discusses the era value of Fromm’s human nature thought. AlthoughFromm’s human nature thought is different from building a harmonious society, both regard the development and perfection of people as a major concern. So they can compare and use forreference. Firstly, the goal of Fromm’s human nature thought coincide with the goal of buildinga harmonious society; Secondly, both have the same path of realization. Therefore, Fromm’shuman nature thought is a basic mature theory that contains a number of insights and hasimportant implications for our socialism harmonious society constructing.