Maslow's Hierarchy vs.Mark Plimsoll's
non-human Hierarchy of Needs
______
Maslow ___________________
PLIMSOLL
1. Eat drink sex
_________________ Safety (shelter, escape)
2. Safety, protection,
security ______Sleep, Eat, Drink, Sex, (in safety)
3. Affection / involvement ____________
See self in others (learning)
4. Demanding Love _________________Welcome
or Belonging (dogs, etc.)
5. Respect, Recognition,
self-respect___Dignity (shame vs. competence)
6. Knowledge, order,
understanding ___Grace and efficiency, pride
7. Self-actualization,
pers. development_Higher order of Aesthetic pleasure*
I believe we all can honestly confess feel (intuit)
that animals show dignity, shame, embarrassment, strutting pride, etc. and that
we humans feel certain of these qualities beyond simple "anthropmorphic" or
Magic Thinking, which relies overly on a separation of Man and Nature. Domestic
animals, cats and dogs in particular, seem to portray an arrested "paedeo-psychic"
development as permanent children, and thus express an abundance of need for
their "parent" humans, dependence on them for safety, food, affection, belonging
(dogs' territoriality) and for Play.
*Higher Orders of Aesthetic Pleasures
By Higher Orders of Aesthetic Pleasures, I suggest
that Beauty, "pleasurable" sensory stimulation, exist as evidence of Order,
as Order expresses Life (anti-entropy) and therefore creatures seek beauty,
and avoid disorder. So life becomes beautiful, as Design and Function intertwine
to produce elegant solutions. Early proto-primate reptiles, and perhaps other
Dinosaurish life-forms, some scientists jokingly considered as too ugly to survive,
but perhaps innate conditions of this "artificial selection" eventually beautifies
the evolution of morphology and behavior.
Vultures don't seem to fit in. Might express an
attempt to come to terms with their food-source!
