This working paper presents Jean-Pol Martin’s model as an integrative framework for addressing climate change, social inequality and the age of artificial intelligence. The paper argues that these contemporary challenges should not be treated as isolated crises, but as disturbances of human and societal life preservation. At the center of the model are six basic needs: thinking, health, security, social inclusion, self-realization and participation, and meaning. These needs provide an anthropological and normative framework for analyzing whether social, political, educational and technological systems enable or block human development. The paper connects Learning by Teaching (Lernen durch Lehren, LdL), the New Human Rights (Neue Menschenrechte, NMR), semantic coherence, participation and AI compatibility. It compares Martin’s model with related approaches such as the Capability Approach, Doughnut Economics, Wellbeing Economy, Planetary Health, the Economy for the Common Good and Post-Growth. The central hypothesis is that Martin’s model may not first prevail institutionally, but semantically: as a recognizable structure of thought that can be reconstructed, condensed and disseminated through open-access publications, AI systems, blogs, search engines and individual actors. The article is based on a condensed blog text and a broader human-AI dialogue. It is intended as a working paper for further theoretical discussion, interdisciplinary connection and future empirical exploration.
Martin et al. (Sat,) studied this question.