Monthly Archives: October 2007

Bridging the Divide between Religious & Secularists and Theists & Atheists

Based on evidence, existence in the natural world appears to be an interaction between a person and the environment (extension of Kurt Lewin’s Field Theory).  However, the qualities attributed to people and the environment vary based on personal and cultural disposition and personal and cultural situation.  The person and the environment are simultaneously an influence [...]

Erich Fromm, Relatedness, and Freedom

Over fifty years ago, Erich Fromm positioned a vision of The Sane Society in which humanistic beliefs of relatedness and freedom prevailed.  In contemporary American portrayals of popular culture, arguments are positioned regarding gender identity and sexual orientation that apply to these Frommian principles.  Some proponents of equality have taken steps toward love, plurality, freedom, [...]

Critical Humanistic Health Promotion and Morality

Through experience and reason, I categorize morality into five types: prescriptive, normative, reasoned, representative, and available morality.  These types of morality are not mutually exclusive meaning that more than one type of morality can be used by people at one time or across different time periods.  Additionally, the five morality types are not necessarily independent.  [...]