Whether The Idea Of "Sane Society" Of Fromm Is Possible?

The conception of ideal society emerged because of the existence of human beings and has been gradually developed ever since.Scholars throughout history have drawn their own pictures on ideal society based on the then unreasonable one.It is widely acknowledged that the conception of Utopia or ideal society originated from Thomas More.Plato,however,had already put forward the concept of "ideal country" in his political philosophy system in ancient Greek.As time goes by,new theories on ideal society have been presented successively.For example,many scholars put forward their views about the ideal society during three movement of ideological emancipation in the late Middle Ages,such as Locke,Rousseau and so on.What's more,many representatives gave their viewpoints based on the real society in various stages of Utopian socialism.The wheels of studying ideal society have never stopped even after Marx and Engels created the scientific socialism.Instead,lots of scholars have put forward their own thoughts on the existing social problems and how to build a better society.For example,in every stage of Western Marxism school,the scholars put forward different views on social reform and development,which claims to diagnosis for society.One of them is Erich Fromm,one of the representatives of the Frankfurt school which aims at social diagnosis.Unlike the former scholars who criticized the society mainly from the perspective of politics and economy,he did it in all aspects of Western capitalist societies-politics,economy,culture and education-starting from the individual human nature and social psychology and proposed the idea of building a sane society through the synchronous reform of political,economic and cultural.This paper began with the brief introductions into the ideal society in Western history,followed by the detailed narration of Fromm's sane social theory from three aspects which is human nature,alienation and the way to the sane society.On that basis,merits and demerits in that theory were discussed under the guidance of Marx's theory,so was the possibility of the sane society in realistic society evaluated.In the end,some good points of Fromm's sane society theory were criticized and analyzed according to China's present political,economic and cultural situations in an effort to give the reference to building a beautiful new China.