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A (meta) critique to contemporary development schools

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Throughout this article we will discuss some epistemological limitations that the main contemporary theories of development face. We will examine how despite such theories bases their assumptions from an individual perspective, development literature has traditionally tend to move away to complexity by a theoretical assimilation of personal utility´s maximalization proposition. Such was possible since Kant´s note a transgression of becoming ends into means of development. This perspective particularly assumed by human development theory is replaced by an epistemological reductionism based on individual and social justice as conceptual abstractions.

Source: Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo = Iberoamerican journal of development studies

DOI: 10.26754/ojs_ried/ijds.140

Author: Manuel Antonio Jiménez-Castillo

Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Language: English

Topic: Development, Ethics, and Society

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1541496520

FWCI: 1.994

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