Concept
Biophilia
Fromm's term, introduced in The Heart of Man (1964), for the passionate love of life and of all that is alive: an orientation drawn to growth, structure and the new rather than to the mechanical and the fixed, preferring to influence by love, reason and example rather than by force. He treated it as the primary orientation of a healthy character, of which destructiveness is the failure, and set it against necrophilia.
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- Erich Fromm
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- Related
- Necrophilous character
introduced by
- Erich Fromm 1964 Fromm coined biophilia in The Heart of Man (1964) for the love of life that he held to be the primary orientation of a healthy person, two decades before the biologist E. O. Wilson used the same word in a different sense.
opposes
- Necrophilous character Fromm presented love of life and love of death as the two basic and opposed orientations, mixed in most people in varying proportions.