The Importance of the Difference Between Having and Being
The alternative of having versus being does not appeal to common sense. To
have, so it would seem, is a normal function of our life: in order to live we
must have things. Moreover, we must have things in order to enjoy them.
In a culture in which the supreme goal is to have—and to have more and
more—and in which one can speak of someone as "being worth a million
dollars," how can there be an alternative between having and being? On
the contrary, it would seem that the very essence of being is having; that
if one has nothing, one is nothing
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