Human needs beyond biology are historically conditioned and subject to critique.

Evidence

In this sense, human needs are historical needs and, to the extent to which the society demands the repressive development of the individual, his needs themselves and their claim for satisfaction are subject to overriding critical standards. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 113

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does this historical-needs thesis survive contact with Hardin’s and others’ biological essentialism about needs?
• XREF: connects to: Ethical inquiry must start from the historically conditioned constitution of subjects. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1236; Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism.; Advanced society suffocates the very needs that demand liberation while sustaining repressive ones

Broader Connections

• Ethical inquiry must start from the historically conditioned constitution of subjects. #corroborates (0.90) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1236
• Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism. #corroborates (0.82)
• Advanced society suffocates the very needs that demand liberation while sustaining repressive ones #exemplifies (0.72)