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タテジマ|努力できない病をエーリッヒ・フロムで治すラボ's avatar

今日のマナブさんの「引用」から思い出したのですが

erich frommは、その著書”pysychoanalysis and religion”の中で、マナブさんのおっしゃるDirectionという意味で、Orientationという言葉を使っています。そしてこんな風に書いています。

I underastand by religion any system of thought and action shared by group which gives the indeividual a freme of orientation and an object of devotion.

There is indeed no culture of the past, and it seems there can be no culture in the future, which does not have religion in this broad sens of our definition.

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“Because the need for a system of orientation and devotion is an intrinsic part of human existence we can understand the intensity of this need. Indeed, there is no other more powerful source of energy in man.

Man is not free to choose between having or not having ‘ideals,’ but he is free to choose between different kinds of ideals, between being devoted to the worship of power and destruction and being devoted to reason and love.

All men are ‘idealists’ and are striving for something beyond the attainment of physical satisfaction. They differ in the kinds of ideals they believe in.

The very best but also the most satanic manifestations of man’s mind are expressions not of his flesh but of his ‘idealism,’ of his spirit.

Therefore a relativistic view which claims that to have some ideal or some religious feeling is valuable in itself is dangerous and erroneous.

We must understand every ideal including those which appear in secular ideologies as expressions of the same human need and we must judge them with respect to their truth, to the extent to which they are conducive to the unfolding of man’s powers and to the degree to which they are a real answer to man’s need for equilibrium and harmony in his world.”

マナブさんはどう思われますか?御感想を聞かせて頂けると嬉しいです。

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