This essay will attempt to expose and explain the ten most prominent deficiencies of man. ... Imagine that the sky was actually purple - though you would call it blue because that was the word assigned to the sky. You could spend your life calling all things purple blue' and never be wrong. ... In Erich Fromm's book Escape from Freedom the author sums up Martin Luther's acknowledgement of man's selfishness: "Luther assumed the existence of an innate evilness in man's nature, which directs his will for evil and makes it impossible for man to perform any good deed on th...

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