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| World Perspectives | viii | |
| Foreword | xviii | |
| About the Author | xx | |
| Introduction: The Great Promise, its Failure, | ||
| and New Alternatives | 1 | |
| The end of an illusion | 1 | |
| Why did the Great Promise fail? | 3 | |
| The economic necessity for human change | 7 | |
| Is there an alternative to catastrophe? | 8 | |
| Part One Understanding the Difference | ||
| Between Having and Being; | 11 | |
| 1 | A First Glance | 13 |
| The importance of the difference between having and being | 13 | |
| Examples in various poetic expressions | 14 | |
| Idiomatic changes | 17 | |
| Origin of the terms | 20 | |
| Philosophical concepts of being | 21 | |
| Having and consuming | 22 | |
| 2 | Having and Being in Daily Experience | 25 |
| Learning | 25 | |
| Remembering | 27 | |
| Conversing | 29 | |
| Reading | 30 | |
| Exercising authority | 32 | |
| Having knowledge and knowing | 34 | |
| Faith | 36 | |
| Loving | 38 | |
| 3 Having and Being in the Old and New Testaments | ||
| and in the Writings of Master Eckhart | 41 | |
| The Old Testament | 41 | |
| The New Testament | 46 | |
| Master Eckhart (1260-c. 1327) | 50 | |
| Part Two Analyzing; the Fundamental | ||
| Differences Between the Two | ||
| Modes of Existence | 57 | |
| 4 | What is the Having Mode? | 59 |
| The Acquisitive Society—basis for the having mode | 59 | |
| The nature of having | 65 | |
| Other factors supporting the having mode | 69 | |
| The having mode and the anal character | 70 | |
| Asceticism and equality | 71 | |
| Existential having | 72 | |
| 5 | What is the Being Mode? | 75 |
| Being active | 76 | |
| Activity and passivity | 77 | |
| Being as reality | 83 | |
| The will to give, to share, to sacrifice | 86 | |
| 6 | Further Aspects of Having and Being | 93 |
| Security—insecurity | 93 | |
| Solidarity—antagonism | 95 | |
| Joy—pleasure | 100 | |
| Sin and forgiveness | 103 | |
| Fear of dying—affirmation of living | 107 | |
| Here, now—past, future | 109 | |
| Part Three The New Man and | ||
| the New Society | 113 | |
| 7 | Religion, Character, and Society | 115 |
| The foundations of social character | 115 | |
| Social character and "religious" needs | 116 | |
| Is the Western World Christian? | 120 | |
| The humanist protest | 132 | |
| 8 Conditions for Human Change and the Features | ||
| of the New Man | 145 | |
| The new Man | 147 | |
| 9 | Features of the New Society | 151 |
| A new science of man | 151 | |
| The new society: Is there a reasonable chance? | 171 | |
| Bibliography | 177 | |
| Index | 183 | |
