title: Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives (Masterclass)
author: Michael Lambek
description: <DIV><B>Michael Lambek </B>is professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. <B>Veena Das </B>is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. <B>Didier Fassin </B>is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and director of studies at the &Eacute;cole des Hautes &Eacute;tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. <B>Webb Keane </B>is the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan.&#160;</DIV>
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  # Man for Himself
  
  
  # An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
  
  
  ## Erich Fromm
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  [**Forewor** d](5-chap1.xhtml#chap1)
  
  
  [**I. The Problem**](6-chap2.xhtml#chap2)
  
  
  [**II. Humanistic Ethics: The Applied Science of the Art of
  Living**](7-chap3.xhtml#chap3)
  
  
  [1\. Humanistic vs. Authoritarian Ethics](7-chap3.xhtml#chap4)
  
  
  [2\. Subjectivistic vs. Objectivistic Ethics](7-chap3.xhtml#chap5)
  
  
  [3\. The Science of Man](7-chap3.xhtml#chap6)
  
  
  [4\. The Tradition of Humanistic Ethics](7-chap3.xhtml#chap7)
  
  
  [5\. Ethics and Psychoanalysis](7-chap3.xhtml#chap8)
  
  
  [**III. Human Nature and Character**](8-chap9.xhtml#chap9)
  
  
  [1\. The Human Situation](8-chap9.xhtml#chap10)
  
  
  [a. Man’s Biological Weakness](8-chap9.xhtml#chap11)
  
  
  [b. The Existential and the Historical Dichotomies in
  Man](8-chap9.xhtml#chap12)
  
  
  [2\. Personality](8-chap9.xhtml#chap13)
  
  
  [a. Temperament](8-chap9.xhtml#chap14)
  
  
  [b. Character](8-chap9.xhtm