Contra el miedoSpinoza y Fromm

  1. Espinosa Rubio, Luciano
Journal:
Thémata: Revista de filosofía

ISSN: 0212-8365

Year of publication: 2007

Issue: 38

Pages: 47-60

Type: Article

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Abstract

Fear is one of the most powerful tools to exercise domination, usually based in an absolute preference for security instead of liberty. Spinoza and Fromm, on the contrary, offer two historical and convergent examples of humanist thinking to the service of joy, reason and personal autonomy.