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Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/673/en
The external economy — that which attaches itself to agricultural production — has as its aim the meeting of human needs for nourishment. In both cases the needs are of a will-like, that is to say spiritual, nature.[1] To comprehend them and to satisfy them through the cycle of economic life is a task of shaping thinking. In economic life, the phenomenon it connects with is need. Within the farm, this need articulates itself in every case out of the wholeness of the farm organism. One must, in order to satisfy the need, plunge thinking into the living web of relationships, weigh in thought every measure according to whether it promotes or hinders, and incorporate the result into the farm organism through the deed. Nature satisfies its needs through the wisdom inherent in it. In agriculture, the human being simultaneously shapes
- ↑ Needs arise from the depths of the body's unconscious and from the more light-filled substrata of soul-spiritual experience. They are rooted in the will, in which the spiritual ground of the human being — the I — lives. In bodily need, hunger and thirst for example, the impulse stirs to compensate an imbalance in the functional activities of the bodily organs. The soul-spiritual need strives to free itself from its bondage to bodily processes and to place itself freely in the service of ethico-moral ideals. Thus needs are, by their content, spiritual in nature; the means of their satisfaction are a task of economic life.
