Your investigation of fundamental human needs truly connects with the everlasting issue of what it means to flourish and not merely to survive. As Aristotle once remarked, the ultimate goal of mankind is eudaimonia; prosperity via the attainment of both physical and moral potential. Food => housing, clothes, education, and health care are not simply conveniences, they are the base of the dignity that permits us to move beyond survival and develop virtue

Seneca's saying "a hungry people do not listen to reason" emphasizes your point of urgency when these necessities are unfulfilled, society fractures - not just physically but also spiritually, how can one ponder on justice, creativity or community while being bound by deprivation? the lack of these crucial qualities generates what Rousseau may term a "broken social contract," in which humanity's pledge to elevate one another remains unmet

And yet your conclusion is encouraging: To consider these requirements as rights is to uphold the Stoic ideal of "cosmopolitanism," seeing all life as inherently deserving of care. In the face of today's disparities, let us be led by Kant's imperative: act so that our judgments become universal rules that assure that no soul is injured. If we stick to the roots of life, only then can we jointly ascend to Plato's "form of the good," where society reflects our greatest aspirations

in solidarity [Omar Abdelkefi]