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The combination of metaphysical and psychological perspectives used to analyze man's heart turned into a very interesting read. One of the concept's I found myself agreeing with more and more was found in Fromm's different types of syndromes that man progresses toward 鈥� the syndrome of growth and the syndrome of decay. I would recommend an individual read the Art of Loving as a companion to this book due to the corresponding ideas.

Excerpts:

鈥淓vilness is a specifically human phenomenon. It is the attempt to regress to the pre-human state, and to eliminate that which is specifically human: reason, love, freedom. Yet evilness is not only human, but tragic. Even if man regresses to the most archaic forms of experience, he can never cease being human; hence he can never be satisfied with evilness as a solution.鈥�

鈥淕ood consists of transforming our existence into an ever increasing approximation of our essence; evil into an ever increasing estrangement between existence and essence.鈥�

鈥淔reedom is nothing other than the capacity to follow the voice of reason, of health, of well-being, of conscience, against the voices of irrational passions.鈥�