Critical review of disobedience as a moral and psychological

bedience. Overall, I agreed with the presentation of the essay, however I disagreed with part of the thesis. I disagree with Fromm’s perspective of beginning human civilization and I felt the world ending by an act of obedience is too dramatic, and cannot be explained outright.

“If the capacity for disobedience constituted the beginning of human history, obedience might very well…cause the end of human history” (page 361) Fromm is referring to the time and place he lives in as he is writing this essay (the Atomic Age, after the Bay of Pigs incident) and explains that, emotionally, man still lives in the Stone Age while, scientifically, the human species lives in the 20th century. The information presented about the Era humans were living in can still be applied to the 21st century; however there is no explanation of how an act of obedience could cause the end of human history. The statement, as I said earlier, is too dramatic and lacks merit in relation to the essay Fromm has written. It is assumed that the reader can chime in and echo in on his sentiments due to the Era he lives in, however the statement should be revised to the following: “An act of obedience will cause the end of the free, democratic world”. This statement is more apt because many events in international and national history have almost caused the end of the free, democratic world. For example, an act of obedience allowed Nazism to spread in Europe so heavily and because of this spreading of Nazism, millions of people were captured, enslaved, or killed. Another example is apartheid and Jim Crow laws. It was an act of obedience that allowed such laws to be rampant not only in the United States, but in Africa as well, causing the almost subsequent end of a free, democratic world.

Overall, I disagreed partially with the essay’s thesis, however I did not disagree with the article overall. There are many points that Fromm stresses in his essay separate from the thesis that I could not agree with more. For example, throughout the course of the essay, from is explaining how and why people disobey. To many, it might seem a bit offensive. However he writes this in his essay, and it is a point that I totally agree with: “If a man can obey and

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