Only vital biological needs hold an unqualified claim to satisfaction.

Evidence

The only needs that have an unqualified claim for satisfaction are the vital ones—nourishment, clothing, lodging at the attainable level of culture. The satisfaction of these needs is the prerequisite for the realization of all needs, of the unsublimated as well as the sublimated ones. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 116

Categorization

• QUESTION: Unresolved: if even historical needs are marked by repression, can any hierarchy between vital and false needs be drawn non-arbitrarily?
• XREF: connects to: Biological facts only matter through the concrete value they have in action — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142; Mere biological maintenance cannot justify living; only future-oriented activity can. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 598; Biology only matters to psychology through the lived, meaningful body — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 119 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Mere biological maintenance cannot justify living; only future-oriented activity can. #qualifies (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 598
• Biological facts only matter through the concrete value they have in action #corroborates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142
• Maturation into the universal is achieved only at the cost of vitality #complicates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 299
• Biology only matters to psychology through the lived, meaningful body #corroborates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 119