Contents

Foreword
Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and New Alternatives

• The End of an Illusion
• Why Did the Great Promise Fail?
• The Economic Necessity for Human Change
• Is There an Alternative to Catastrophe?

Part One: Understanding the Difference Between Having and Being

I. A First Glance

• The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being
  Examples in Various Poetic Expressions
• Idiomatic Changes
• Origin of the Terms
• Philosophical Concepts of Being
• Having and Consuming

II. Having and Being in Daily Experience

• Learning
• Remembering
• Conversing
• Reading
• Exercising
• Authority
• Having Knowledge and Knowing
• Faith
• Loving

III. Having and Being in the Old and New 
Testaments and in the Writings of Master Eckhart

• The Old Testament
• The New Testament
• Master Eckhart

Part Two: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences Between the Two Modes of Existence

IV. What Is the Having Mode?

• The Acquisitive Society—Basis for the Having Mode
• The Nature of Having
• Other Factors Supporting the Having Mode
• The Having Mode and the Anal Character
• Asceticism and Equality
• Existential Having

V. What Is the Being Mode?

• Being Active
• Activity and Passivity
• Being as Reality
• The Will to Give, to Share, to Sacrifice

VI. Further Aspects of Having and Being

• Security—Insecurity
• Solidarity—Antagonism
• Joy—Pleasure
• Sin and Forgiveness
• Fear of Dying—Affirmation of hiving
• Here, Now—Past, Future

Part Three: The New Man and the New Society

VII. Religion, Character, and Society

• The Foundations of Social Character
• Social Character and “Religious” Needs
• Is the Western World Christian?
• The Humanist Protest

VIII. Conditions for Human Change and the Features of the New Man

• The New Man

IX. Features of the New Society

• A New Science of Man
• The New Society: Is There a Reasonable Chance?

Bibliography

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