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  2. Information wants to be free - Wikipedia

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    "Information wants to be free" is an expression that means either that all people should be able to access information freely, or that information (formulated as an actor) naturally strives to become as freely available among people as possible. It is often used by technology activists to criticize laws that limit transparency and general ...

  3. From each according to his ability, to each according to his ...

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    All we then need to add, to get to the fundamental principle of developed communism, is to assume that non-satisfaction of a need is a disadvantage. The corresponding principle of solidarity in respect of need says: if any member of society has an unsatisfied need, each member has a duty to produce its object (if they can).

  4. Uses and gratifications theory - Wikipedia

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    Overall, users have the following motivations: social and affection, need to vent negative feelings, recognition, entertainment, cognitive needs. Users who share news are motivated by the uses and gratifications of socializing and status seeking, especially if they have had prior experience with social media. [ 39 ]

  5. Glasser's choice theory - Wikipedia

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    Glasser also posits a "comparing place," where we compare and contrast our perceptions of people, places, and things immediately in front of us against ideal images (archetypes) of these in our quality world framework. Our subconscious pushes us towards calibrating—as best we can—our real-world experience with our quality world (archetypes).

  6. Necessity is the mother of invention - Wikipedia

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    In an address to the Mathematical Association of England on the importance of education in 1917, Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher-mathematician, argued that "the basis of invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity," and in contrast to the old proverb "Necessity is the mother of ...

  7. Friedrich Nietzsche and free will - Wikipedia

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    If randomness affects a man (unsubjugated, reaching even the surface of his consciousness), then "unfree will" occurs. Thus, whenever we call something free, we feel something free, in short: wherever we feel our power, it is deterministic, it is a necessity. And indeed Nietzsche says it with the mouth of Zarathustra:

  8. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law. Jefferson also may have been influenced by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which was published in early 1776: Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, 1778. He is credited with ...

  9. Manfred Max-Neef's Fundamental human needs - Wikipedia

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    Human Scale Development is basically community development and is "focused and based on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, on the generation of growing levels of self-reliance, and on the construction of organic articulations of people with nature and technology, of global processes with local activity, of the personal with the social, of planning with autonomy and of civil society ...