The Concept of Development: Its Implications for Self and Society

Ramashray Roy
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Ramashray Roy: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Psychology and Developing Societies, 1991, vol. 3, issue 2, 133-155

Abstract: The insistence on one well structured concept of person as a reference for adjudicating normative claims about the rights and obligations of persons yields only a partial image of man. Grounded in this partial concept, development emphasises the search for felicity in the Hobbesian sense as the source of happiness, personal development, and civilisational progress. The self in this perspective emerges as a broken totality with its deleterious consequences both for self and society. Attempts to mend this broken totality have generally failed because they have tended to reinforce rather than overcome broken totality. As a result, self-assertion as an integral part of the modern concept of development turns out to be destructive both for the self and society.

Date: 1991
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