On the primary and secondary needs

The article is devoted to the problem of differentiation of needs into primary and secondary. It is shown that primary needs, by virtue of their purpose, determine the ability to respond to objects of reality, and not vice versa, while secondary needs, whether “true” or “false”, are a subjective expression of a need at the level of its awareness. Thus, the need to divide needs into primary and secondary needs is primarily associated with an attempt to display a hierarchy of needs for considering the evolution of human development in the process of its socialization. According to another position, the division of needs into primary and secondary needs is carried out in order to study the mechanism of development of needs, starting from primary needs to the realization of the final result of activity through the satisfaction of intermediate needs.