This is http://www.essayz.com/a8606221.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %BASIC HUMAN NEEDS' OBJECTIVE 860622 Objective needs are more often acknowledged and accepted than are subjective needs. By collusion a community may repress subjective needs which are essential to personal and communal integrity. Such integrative needs can not be proven by objective methods to be real. If they are not met there is very real personal and/or communal disintegration entailing real objective aspects. Some subjective needs are created by communal agreement: the need to wear expensive jewels, the need to wear expensive/distinctive clothing, the need to go on ocean cruises, etc. Such needs in such specific forms are not basic human needs, even if there is unanimous agreement within some sub-culture that they are absolutely basic human needs. Some needs are clearly basic human needs to survive: clean air, water, food, and basic shelter and sanitation facilities. The necessity of such needs is objectively clear. There are objective criteria in terms of which it is clear that a failure to meet the needs is likely to result in death in an objective way. It is more difficult for compulsively objective people to deal with basic needs which are not clearly objective in nature: the needs for personal affirmation, affection, touching, intimacy, sexuality, communal integration, psychological integrity, religious coherence, etc. Such needs may be met in a variety of ways which are not objectively real and distinctive, making it difficult to clarify just what the nature of the needs are and what differences they may be among them. There are few objective criteria in terms of which to make it clear that a failure to meet such needs is likely to result in the disintegration of personal and/or communal integrity. It is thus difficult to make a clear case for compulsively objective people that such needs are basic human needs worthy of respect and consideration. The need for personal and communal integrity is clear. Many subjective needs are intimately related to the need for personal and communal integrity, and may be perceived as real and legitimate in terms of the basic need for integrity. That need transcends the need for objective confirmation of reality and truth. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================