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Need (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not yet art: men leap, sing, scream and speak, but these are not yet the dance, music, or poetry.

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Need (n.) seems ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to bind individuals to the state, but that is a syllogism of illusory show, which has its truth only in the others.

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Need (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠society liberates man from nature's stringent necessity: he makes his own necessity, and his contingency is now internal.

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Need (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a conscious individual has to be conceived in the form of universality: he must secure the whole of his existence and obtain possession that lasts.

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Need (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠drive are the felt contradiction within the living subject, which leads it to negate its own one-sidedness; satisfaction makes peace between subject and object.

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Need (n.) returns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠because the animal can exist only as a single individual: no single satisfaction matches its concept, so it turns back constantly from satisfaction to need.