Volume 8, 2019
Public Space and Democratic Participation
Peter McCormick
Pages 155-175
https://doi.org/10.5840/ecoethica20206123
Poor No More? Eco-Ethica and a Philosophy of Development
This article¡¯s aim is to promote further critical discussions on sustainable development and its philosophical presuppositions. The focus is on the first of the United Nations¡¯ 2000 Millennium Development Goals and its 2015 Sustained Development Goals: the eradication of poverty. In this regard, one important question here is just what ¡°a philosophy of development¡± should look cular, the article raises issues about the coherence of a global philosophy of development and the often exaggerated roles of the understandings of development in exclusively economic terms. Alternative proposals are then indicated. A final section examines the idea of a more narrow understanding of philosophies of development in terms of key elements in the eco-ethical proposal such as the stratified social subject. Imamichi¡¯s eco-ethica provides indispensable descriptions of current global contexts in terms of now unprecedented globally interconnected informational and communications technologies (¡°the technological conjuncture¡±).