https://vegasharmon.com/tags/drill/ Recent content in Drill on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/needs-are-socially-constructed/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/needs-are-socially-constructed/ Because of the socially constructed nature of both need and satisfaction, Levitas further argues, there cannot be an evaluation of utopia based on universal principles of what constitutes a ‘good society’ and what a ‘bad society’: ‘If needs are socially constructed, the project of trying to read off the good society from a definition of human nature and human needs is doomed to failure’ (184).