The Good Living and the criticism of abstract universalism

This article reconstructs the criticism from the project may be directed to VBBV abstract universalism embodied in the development discourse. The central argument is that the VBBV was established as an alternative to contemporary environmental and civilizational crisis, against abstract universalism...

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Autor Principal: Cruz, Edwin
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá-Colombia 2017
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.usta.edu.co/index.php/cfla/article/view/2392
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Sumario: This article reconstructs the criticism from the project may be directed to VBBV abstract universalism embodied in the development discourse. The central argument is that the VBBV was established as an alternative to contemporary environmental and civilizational crisis, against abstract universalism of the development discourse, claimed intercultural dialogue to build relationships of complementarity and coexistence between humans and between humans and nature beings. First, the development is examined as an example of abstract universal. In the following three parts VBBV criticism raises the linear conception of history, the anthropocentric and instrumental conception of the nature and character of the colonial discourse of development are studied.