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Interesting and thought provoking insights if you ignore the homophobia.
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No me ha gustado. Demasiado teórico y no veo que tenga utilidad.
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Es un lindo libro, me gustó como explica cada tipo de amor, peroooo, me entró una duda existencial
Hard to know how much he's "right" about or even how possible it is to be "right" about this stuff but it can be thought provoking. Basic premise: love is an active thing which requires concentration, consideration, and care. It's something you "stand in" not "fall for". The description of different types of love is the stuff that has held up worst. It's interesting that for someone who tries to transcend priggish 19th century European morays about stuff fromm still assumes the way mothers and fathers have loved children is the same across time and space. Seems like a lot of thinkers of the era assume that everyone who has ever existed got their plump pink bottom paddled by mummy and poppy exactly as much as they did. Goes on to describe why love is so rare in contemporary capitalist society. We have to turn ourselves into economic agents who look for fair trades and exchanges but love, per Fromm, is not based on this. You don't love because you are loved, you are loved because you love etc. His prescription for how to love in a world where the deck is stacked against you involves meditation and building focus. Ends on a hopeful note: because love is, he thinks, the rational solution to the meaning of life, ways of organizing society that run counter to it will inevitably fall. Kinda a squishy hippy version of history obeying laws. Fingers crossed I guess.
One of the most important and unsettling thoughts about love to me is right towards the end. He reads "do unto others..." As a modern capitalist way of understanding "love thy neighbor as thyself". It emphasizes fairness over love and it means *not* feeling responsible for those you love where the initial meaning is the opposite. He might be right about it and it might be better if I could do that but I'd have a hard time practicing love that way.
One of the most important and unsettling thoughts about love to me is right towards the end. He reads "do unto others..." As a modern capitalist way of understanding "love thy neighbor as thyself". It emphasizes fairness over love and it means *not* feeling responsible for those you love where the initial meaning is the opposite. He might be right about it and it might be better if I could do that but I'd have a hard time practicing love that way.
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If you can read through the problematic areas it has some interesting info, but there are some super problematic views that were common at the time of writing.