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Are You Active... Or Just Busy? #33

Are You Active... Or Just Busy? #33

Erich Fromm on what it means to be truly active

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Nov 13, 2020
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Activity in the modern sense refers only to behavior, not to the person behind the behavior. It makes no difference whether people are active because they are driven by external force, like a slave, …

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