Maslow's Being Values
Maslow's Being Values
Maslow's List of B(eing)-Values (TPB 83, quoted verbatim)
wholeness ; (unity; integration; tendency to one-ness; interconnectedness; simplicity; organization; structure; dichotomy-transcendence; order);
perfection ; (necessity; just-right-ness; just-so-ness; inevitability; suitability; justice; completeness; "oughtness")
completion ; (ending; finality; justice; "it's finished"; fulfillment; finis and telos ; destiny; fate);
justice ; (fairness; orderliness; lawfulness; "oughtness");
aliveness ; (process; non-deadness; spontaneity; self-regulation; full-functioning);
richness ; (differentiation, complexity; intricacy);
simplicity ; (honesty; nakedness; essentiality; abstract, essential, skeletal structure);
beauty ; (rightness; form; aliveness; simplicity; richness; wholeness; perfection; completion; uniqueness; honesty);
goodness ; (rightness; desireability; oughtness; justice; benevolence; honesty);
uniqueness ; (idiosyncrasy; individuality; non-comparability; novelty);
effortlessness ; (ease; lack of strain, striving or difficulty; grace; perfect, beautiful functioning);
playfulness ; (fun; joy; amusement; gaiety; humor; exuberance; effortlessness);
truth; honesty; reality; (nakedness; simplicity; richness; oughtness; beauty; pure, clean and unadulterated; completeness; essentiality).
self-sufficiency ; (autonomy; independence; not-needing-other-than-itself-in-order-to-be-itself; self-determining; environment-transcendence; separateness; living by its own laws).
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