Does the Spirit-Mind-Body Trinity perspective allow us to go beyond Maslows Hierarchy of Needs?
Dear Friends Thank you for your excellent addition to the original HQR Socratic dialogue http://ow.ly/p1tn in this regard. You have made some extremely valid observations by pointing out that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is extremely inadequate and simplistic in some respects. However, it is important to recognise the role it has played in helping to set government and NGO policy and also in developing business strategy across the world. What are the primary areas of concern? Maslow’s 1943 pyramid-of-needs has sometimes been discussed in terms of which needs are 1. intrinsic and; 2. extrinsic. Further, Maslow has also discussed splitting needs into: 1. deficiency needs; and 2. growth needs. As we try to place his original pyramid shaped hierarchy-of-needs on these dichotomies, we find that some of the needs don’t fit clearly at all into one or the other class! For example, physical needs must be met through external resources, though we use agencies of mind as we work to meet those need
