Erich Fromm and the Tzedakah

The psychologist Erich Fromm was an atheist who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, and it is traditional Judaism which has informed his secular humanistic values throughout life. One such insight involves the psychology of poverty, that what makes being poor so ruinous isn’t only not being able to afford the luxuries of life [...]

Of DC Electric Motor Repair, Language, and Human Consciousness

Thanks to our language – which must be to say, thanks to the very nature of our minds, of which our language is but a reflection – we are compelled to imagine an agent behind every action. With that same token of our human psychology, we are also just as compelled to think about a [...]