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B-Values

According to Abraham Maslow, B-Values (Being Values) represent the ultimate goals of human existence, focusing on intrinsic, rather than extrinsic, qualities. They are linked to the peak experiences and self-actualization stages of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.[1]

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  1. Wholeness: Unity, integration, tendency to oneness, interconnectedness, simplicity, organization, structure, dichotomy transcendence, order.
  2. Perfection: Necessity, just-right-ness, just-so-ness, inevitability, suitability, justice, completeness, “oughtness.”
  3. Completion: Ending, finality, justice, “it’s finished,” fulfillment, finis and telos, destiny, fate.
  4. Justice: Fairness, orderliness, lawfulness, “oughtness.”
  5. Aliveness: Process, non-deadness, spontaneity, self-regulation, full-functioning.
  6. Richness: Differentiation, complexity, intricacy.
  7. Simplicity: Honesty, nakedness, essentiality, abstract, essential skeletal structure.
  8. Beauty: Rightness, form, aliveness, simplicity, richness, wholeness, perfection, completion, uniqueness, honesty.
  9. Goodness: Rightness, desirability, oughtness, justice, benevolence, honesty.
  10. Uniqueness: Idiosyncrasy, individuality, non-comparability, novelty.
  11. Effortlessness: Ease, lack of strain, striving or difficulty, grace, perfect beautiful functioning.
  12. Playfulness: Fun, joy, amusement, gaiety, humor, exuberance, effortlessness.
  13. Truth: Honesty, reality, nakedness, simplicity, richness, oughtness, beauty, pure, clean and unadulterated, completeness, essentiality.
  14. Self-sufficiency: Autonomy, independence, not needing other than itself in order to be itself, self-determining, environment transcendence, separateness, living by its own laws.[2]


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Footnotes

  1. A. H. Maslow, Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition) (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968).
  2. A. H. Maslow, Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition) (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968). p. 83.