American International Journal of Social Science

ISSN 2325-4149(Print), ISSN 2325-4165(Online) DIO: 10.30845/aijss

Better Satisfaction of Human Needs by Coordinating Material and Spiritual Values
Pál Tomcsányi

Abstract
The quality of human life and its future outlook are based on a different approach to life-style needs enabling satisfaction, a distinction between and a well-balanced consumption of material and experience goods. The purpose of human life and the possibility of survival are approached from the perspective of faith using the dual model of the material and spiritual world. By conceiving man as currently the only spiritual creating being on Earth, the essence of human survival and existence, in addition to fulfilling its spiritual creative function, is in reducing the dominance of self-interest and possessiveness and in a massive increase of humanitarian solidarity.

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