A Study On Fromm’s View Of Being

For a long time,being has been the core issue concerned by western philosophy and western humanism.On this issue,Western Marxists,inspired by Marx’s classic texts,have made in-depth exploration and elucidation of the being problems and formed fruitful research results.Among them,Erich Fromm’s view of being have typical significance.As far as the internal logic of his thought is concerned,Fromm’s view of being occupies the core position in his ideological system,which is the ontological basis for Fromm to criticize the developed capitalism.In To Have or To Be,Fromm takes the being and have as an example,reveals and expounds the meaning of the concept of being,highlights creativity,aesthetics,self realization and other characteristics,according to which,along the living situation,experience and spiritual situation of human beings,he cuts into the analysis and criticism of capitalism,taking this as a clue,and takes Marx’s early humanitarian thought,especially in Manuscript of Economics and Philosophy in 1844,the criticism of alienated labor is combined with Freudian psychology,to critically "diagnose" the psychosis of the developed capitalist society,draw on Marx’s normative analysis of human’s being,highlight Marx’s dimension of freedom and consciousness of human being,expose and criticize the phenomena of production alienation and consumption alienation of the developed capitalism,and conceiving the spiritual dimension of the individual in the future communist society.This paper traces back and explores the theoretical origin of Fromm’s view of being,analyzes the core connotation of Fromm’s view of being in detail,that is,the meaning of creativity,aesthetics and productive being,sums up its characteristics of production,aesthetics and spontaneity,analyzes the position of being in his ideological system,and discusses in-depth how this theory constitutes the methodological basis of Fromm.From this dimension,it shows Fromm’s enrichment of the philosophy of being in the 20 th century,his overcoming and surpassing of the spiritual crisis of contemporary capitalism,his enrichment and expansion of the critical angle of contemporary capitalism,and his in-depth criticism of the logic of capitalist modernity.The analysis and exploration of Fromm’s view of being will help us to understand the alienation,limitation,conflict and contradiction of the contemporary European developed capitalism.It has insight into the potential revolutionary factors and the logic of social conflict of the contemporary developed capitalism in Europe and America.In the same way,a deep understanding of Fromm’s ontology can also give us a lot of inspiration in criticizing consumer society and overcoming spiritual alienation.In the context of contemporary capitalism,based on the principles,positions and methods of Marxist philosophy,Fromm will combine the interpretation of problems of being with Marx’s criticism of capitalism.With the development of the times,he will advance the research and development of the basic principles of Marxism with the times,and highlight the methods and perspectives of Marxist thinking about the being of human,which is helpful to the construction of Marxist Discourse in China.