This is a reply which I wrote on the english list of the Oekonux project on a mail by Stefan Merten with the subject »Balancing need and Selbstentfaltung by governance?« Since this question has a fundamental meaning, I wrote a more general and philosophical answer. I made a few typo corrections on the original post.
On 2009-11-04 20:22, Stefan Merten wrote:
Recently once again I thought about the problem of balancing need and Selbstentfaltung. I think this is the fundamental question which concepts like Christian are struggling for: How is the societal need balanced with Selbstentfaltung.
From my POV „balancing“ is the wrong term to raise the problem adequately. (mehr …)