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). (more…)
