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BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
The person is a multiple and interdependent needs, which make up a system that is interrelated and interact, simultaneously complementing and compensating to achieve dynamism in the process of satisfaction.
Universal human needs are the same in all cultures and historical moments, its variation is determined by the mechanism or means used to achieve them.
The satisfaction of human needs must be given in three contexts, also interrelated:
- In relation to oneself.
- In relation to the social group.
- In relation to the environment.
Like many other authors, Manfred Max Neef, Development Studies, Human Scale, classifies human needs into categories and categorical existential axiomatic. In the first identifies needs be, have, do and be, and axiological on subsistence needs, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom. The complementarity and interrelation between these categories to determine the satisfactions and ways to meet one or more requirements. A need can have many satisfactions and it is these that determine the degree of development in different cultures and regions (Table).
Need has been erroneously equated with shortages, without considering the needs simultaneously can also be human potential. When one accepts the need and deprivation, are restricted only to the physiological field which is precisely the area where a need for more power is assumed as the failure of something “but when we undertake needs, motivate and mobilize people are potential. For example:
- Need to engage potential for participation.
- Need to potential freedom of autonomy.
The satisfaction of human needs means, then self-reliance and participation in personal and collective level, leading to improved quality of life and therefore to generate human development.
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