B-Values

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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]

Abraham Maslow Terms

B-Cognition, B-Realm, B-Values, Big Problem, D-Cognition, D-Realm, Deficiency Diseases, Eupsychia, Eupsychian Theory, Good Person, Good Science, Good Society, Good Specimen, Hierarchy of Basic Needs, Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs, Human Diminution, Inner Signals, Intrinsic Consciousness, Normalcy, Normative Biology, Peak Experience, Plateau Experience, Real Self, Self-Actualization, Transcending Self-Actualizers, Transhumanistic

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Notes

Quotes

  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]


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.



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