ABSTRACT
It seems we can agree on one thing at least: if personal fulfilment is to have any place in our life at all, we all have certain basic needs that must be satisfied for it to be possible. That human beings require oxygen in order to live is a scientific fact. That they need food and drink is undeniable. Clothing and housing are minimally more controversial. Some human beings in hot parts of the world can go without clothes, but for others of us it is, again, an objective truth that we need them to survive. Is the same true of a dwelling-place? Perhaps many of us could live some kind of hand-to-mouth existence without one. If basic needs are for bare survival, housing is less copper-bottomed a candidate than food.
