Infinity defines need as insatiable need: when unsatisfied, a need is the real need. As soon as the lack is overcome, the needed good is in place, and there is no need. Even if the needed is reached in the activities of the feeling being, which is the only one capable to be in need, the acquisition of the object of need leads over the presence of the needed to yet another need, as the very sensitiveness is nothing less than unceasing recognition of a difference. Even when the diminishing need emerges eventually, need simply brakes down in the framework of the vanished need to a sequence of needs. Nevertheless even then, every particular need should be considered as an endless need in itself – and so insatiable as long as it is still a need.
Historical Backdrop
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA The Sermon at Benares: the cycle of craving and suffering. Dhammapada: desire.
• JEAN-JAQUES ROUSSEAU Discourse on the Arts and Sciences and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: progressing civilization degenerates conveniences into true needs; the savage lives in oneself but the civilized man out of oneself.
• ADAM SMITH Wealth of Nations: limited human stomach and unlimited desire for conveniences.
• JOHN MCCULLOCH The Principles of Political Economy: progressive nature of man.
• WILLIAM HEARN Plutology, I: absolute want.
• FRIEDERICH NIETZSCHE The Birth of Tragedy: Dionysian principle. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: life.
• CALR MENGER Principles of Economics: capacity of humane need to grow. Lectures to the Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria: the increasing needs as a sign of increasing civilization.