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Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence by henry2023 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:32PM (#39168401)
Here is the original work[1]. And not only the hierarchy is never mentioned. Also, the whole publication is just an essay that lacks any kind or form of research.

[1] https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm

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Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence by layer8 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @04:13PM (#39169864)
He never represented it as a pyramid, but he clearly described it as a hierarchy.
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Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence by ada1981 on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:17AM (#39175058)
Yes, I mispoke and used hierarchy interchangeably with pyramid.

https://ndisisnd.medium.com/maslow-didnt-create-the-pyramid-...

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Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence by throwaway18536 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:53PM (#39168645)
The whole essay talks about various hierarchies, literally the defining theme is hierarchy of motivation
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Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence by mhb on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:44PM (#39168549)
> And not only the hierarchy is never mentioned

That's absurd. The entire essay describes the hierarchy.

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Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence by readthenotes1 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @02:50PM (#39169158)
Thank you for the link, but I'm curious why you didn't read it yourself before you made your assertion?

"But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?

At once other (and 'higher') needs emerge and these, rather than physiological hungers, dominate the organism. And when these in turn are satisfied, again new (and still 'higher') needs emerge and so on. This is what we mean by saying that the basic human needs are organized into a hierarchy of relative prepotency. "

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