Empiricism is a system for truth-generation requiring belief, a value of "truth" doesn't have meaning without a truth-generation system attached: this is the end-result of postmodern work. Efficiency is a property of a system & can be optimized for. What even is utility anyway?
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Sure, but I argue that the *act of meeting one's needs* can be framed as a spiritual endeavor (maybe even, is the essential feature of a spiritual endeavor?), regardless of which need.
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yes, and the hierarchy defines in what proportion of substance:spirit if I'm reading the theory correctly
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I'm not certain that it's a continuum from most substantive vs most spiritual, could see it as claiming that spirituality imbues all levels, but merely that there's a hierarchy in terms of which needs must be satisfied first/are stronger biologically.
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you don't see that? self-actualization is a need that is 100% spiritual whereas physical subsistence is a need that is 100% physical. the rest of the pyramid in proportion between those. 100% physical need does not mean devoid of spirit, but like, trace quantities.
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I don't have a great working definition here, but that paragraph shows the act of satisfying hunger as becoming deeply imbued with spiritual weight once it reaches a certain significance. Self actualization doesn't have a physiological component, but it seems equally spiritual.
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it's possible to be tube-fed (this is done to prisoners on hunger-strike at times) and derive no spiritual satisfaction at all from it. negative spiritual satisfaction actually. it still meets your physical need for nutrition.
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do they starve them for 20 days before they begin tube-feeding? Most people do not ever achieve the state of significant hunger Maslow describes.
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I don't know. a hunger strike situation suggests to me that yes, the potential for life-threatening hunger is present.
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