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Transhumanistic

Transhumanistic is Abraham Maslows term for individuals who have achieved Sufficient Satisfaction of their basic needs and have moved on to higher motivational drives, like the search for "truth, goodness, beauty, perfection, excellence, simplicity, elegance, and so on."[1]

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"The fully developed ( and very fortunate) human being, working under the best conditions tends to be motivated by values which transcend bis self. They are not selfish anymore in the old sense of that term. Beauty is not within one's skin nor is justice or order. One can hardly class these desires as selfish in the sense that my desire for food might be. My satisfaction with achieving or allowing justice is not within my own skin; it docs not lie along my arteries. It is equally outside and inside: therefore, it has transcended the geographical limitations of the self. Thus one begins to talk about transhumanistic psychology."[2]

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Footnotes

  1. Maslow, A. H. The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9. p. 3
  2. Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9. p. 4