The Forgotten Language of Nontheistic Mysticism: Religious Factors in Erich Fromm’s Humanism
Religions April 25, 2024 Ronen Pinkas 2 citations
Erich Fromm's position of nontheistic mysticism is central to his humanistic ethics, bridging mysticism and organized religion, religion and religiosity, and connecting religion, philosophy, and social psychoanalysis. This position involves negative theology, the x experience, and idolatry, and it relates to Fromm's understanding of human nature, self-realization, and a sane society. Contrary to some scholarly views, Fromm's humanism is not radical atheistic secularism; instead, it internalizes transcendent divinity into the human subject as anthropological-ethical phenomena while warning that atheism risks idolatrous identification of humans with God. Nontheistic mysticism functions as a consciousness mechanism for fine-tuning moral compasses, affected by societal pathologies of normalcy.