Essays on Fromm

There are various dynamic issues in health care system. It is worth noting that a visit to a medical facility in the community reveals tremendous changes in the health care landscape. Today, changing healthcare landscape is streamlined towards improving the quality of health care. On the same note, the main emphasis is reducing the overall costs of health care in the clinics and hospitals within the community. The marketplaces and regulatory forces play a key role in the changing health care landscape. It includes the consolidation trends, clinic profitability, changing federal reimbursement, as well as, shifting of ownership patterns. ...

Over the centuries, kings, priests, feudal lords, industrialists, and the parents, everyone who was older or on the higher position, insisted that obedience is a virtue and disobedience is a sin. Messianic prophets’ concepts confirmed the idea that the man was right to be disobedient, that he was not corrupted by his “sin,” the man was released from the shackles of pre-human harmony (Fromm 683). The man continued to develop through the acts of disobedience. Possible for him has become not only his spiritual development, because there were people who dared to say “no” to the powers that was ...

In the system of practical philosophy, ethics occupies a special place. It specifies the ethics and inspires a well-known formula of the ancient philosopher Protagoras that man is the measure of all things, justifying the idea of man as the highest value and self-worth, the sense of life and how to achieve happiness. Ethics calls to treat a man as the aim and never treat man merely as a means. Ethics is a philosophy of morals, values, and ethos. The concept of morality is often limited to the level of elementary culture of communication, so the meaning and the ...

What is Disobedience? Analyzing Ursula K. Le Guin’s Short Story

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas There are various ways disobedience can be defined. In the article of Erich Fromm, entitled “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem”, he mentioned that there are varieties of obedience, wherein others are life affirming and others, destructive. Fromm proves that there are psychological and moral problems attached to obedience. From this comes the question: what exactly does disobedience mean? This article analyzes the short story written by Ursula K. Le Guin, entitled “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, using the essay of Erich Fromm. It appears that there are three ...

Liberty or freedom as a primary social, political and economic ideal which should be strived for is a relatively recent development in world history. The idea that the individual should be the primary subject and that individual freedom is a universal good and something which determines the quality of life and the quality or lack thereof of a government.  Freedom is conceived in two different and opposite ways. Positive freedom and negative freedom. The concept of positive freedom is encapsulated by the idea of agency. The idea which a person or subject has agency which means that they have ...

Nowadays social groups and individuals are not perceived as a closed and self-sufficient phenomena. They are included in the general relationship and interdependence. Universal interconnection, interdependence and relationships are extremely complicated by contradictory processes of globalization. The role and influence on the formation of national consciousness of the cultural self-identity should be borne in mind that national identity is implemented at two levels: the social (public, community at large) and personal (personal) (Bem, 1967). The need for self-determination has always been an important human need. Erich Fromm believed that this need is rooted in human nature (Fromm, 1939). Social ...

During the late 1940s, America was made up of small rural villages, in which it was customary for the community leaders to construct civic gatherings, to draw the citizens together at a time when the world was at war with one another. People were encouraged to socialize through town activities that drew them together and create a stronger, more cooperative community. This was the main theme of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”—a story centering on one of the rural communities in America during the 1940s. The story features a lottery being taken place in a community composed of ...

Tourism

2016-04-13

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the issue about the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom and the impact of the customers (especially, women). Nowadays, the hotel business is one of the most promising and, at the same time, growing industries, which bring considerable profits worldwide. The hotel industry as an economic activity includes the provision of hotel services and the organization of paid short-term accommodation in hotels, campgrounds, motels. The hospitality as a component of the tourism industry differs by high potential for the UK market. It is able to generate a steady income to the budget of ...

Dehumanization is a concept by which two or more parties view each other as less of human beings and thereby do not deserve to be treated with moral consideration. The opponents tend to view each other as though the other party to not possess human rights. A good example is the Rwandan genocide. Dehumanization is brought about by unbearable differences that lead to major conflicts that make it difficult for the opponents to recognize that they all belong to the same species. The parties experience intense hatred and alienation and this widens the psychological distance between them. Eventually, this ...