Maslow s Hierarchy Of Needs - 1407 Words

Taylor Swetavage Professor Kelber English 203 1 May 2015 The Human Desire to Explain According to Maslow s Hierarchy of Needs, after a person has achieved safety, satisfied their thirst, hunger and other physiological needs they continue towards self-actualization. In this is our desire for answers emerges. From the moment man had demonstrated his dominance at the top of the food chain, establishing a home, creating a life he set himself on a path towards higher thinking. They began to question why things happened. The best example of this would be the Greek philosophy and the tales of the Gods of Olympus. Tales of love, lust, creation, and destruction were a way of creating answers to what they did not understand. As Malcolm Gladwell†¦show more content†¦Deep distrust began with Uranos. He feared that one day his children would overthrow him. He was so fearful of this, he locked his children deep in the earth. His mother/wife despised her children being treated as prisoners. She began to plot with her youngest son, Kronos, to fr ee him and his siblings. Gaia seduced Uranos, Kronos mutilating his father while he lay vulnerable. Giants, Furies, the Meliai, and Aphrodite grew from the blood of Uranos. Kronos seized power and married his sister, Rhea. Together they had six children, Hera, Demeter, Hestia, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. However, Kronos, like his father, feared that one day his children would overthrow him. In his attempt to stop this he swallows them one by one. Rhea is horrified by this and cannot bare to hand over her youngest, Zeus. She tricks Kronos by handing him a stone wrapped in a blanket, while hiding Zeus on Mount Ida. There he was guarded by nymphs, Amaltheia, and Curetes who danced and made noise to hide the crying of the forbidden child. Once he had grown into a man he dethroned his father and freed his siblings from his stomach. He gave his brother Poseidon the title of Lord of the Sea, Hades reign over the underworld and he himself takes rule over the universe. With his new power, he and his siblings declare war against the Titans. After ten years and no end in sight, Zeus goes to his grandmother Gaia for council. She advises him that the only way to end the war is to free his uncles,