development ethics
{{Short description|Sources of morality}}Development ethics is a field of enquiry that reflects on both the ends and the means of economic development. It typically takes a normative stance, asking and answering questions about the nature of ethically desirable development and what ethics means for achieving development, and discusses various ethical dilemmas that the practice of development has led to. Its aim is to ensure that "value issues" are an important part of the discourse of development.[http://developmentethics.org/what-is-development-ethics/] International Development Ethics Association. What is Development Ethics
Key themes
Development ethics typically looks at development theories and practice and their relationships with:
A major focus of the literature is on the "ethics of the means". This involves asking not only how to realize the goals of development but also what are ethical limits in their pursuit.
Denis Goulet, one of the founding fathers of the discipline, argued in The Cruel Choice (1971) that "Development ethics is useless unless it can be translated into public action. By public action is meant action taken by public authority, as well as actions taken by private agents by having important consequences for the life of the public community. The central question is: How can moral guidelines influence decisions of those who hold power?"Goulet, Denis (1971), The Cruel Choice{{better source needed|date=September 2018}}
Prominent development ethicists
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- David A. Crocker
- Séverine Deneulin
- Jay Drydyk
- Des Gasper
- Denis Goulet
- Lori Keleher
- Serene J. Khader
- Christine Koggel
- Stacy Kosko
- Louis-Joseph Lebret
- Gunnar Myrdal
- Martha Nussbaum
- Eric Palmer
- Ingrid Robeyns
- Dudley Seers
- Amartya Sen
- Nikos Astroulakis
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References
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Further reading
- {{Cite journal | last = Crocker | first = David A | author-link= David Crocker | title = Toward development ethics | journal = World Development | volume = 19 | issue = 5 | pages = 457–483 | doi = 10.1016/0305-750X(91)90188-N | date = May 1991 }}
- Dower, N. (1988) 'What is Development?—A Philosopher's Answer', Centre for Development Studies Occasional Paper Series, 3, Glasgow: University of Glasgow.
- Gasper, D. (1994) "Development Ethics: An Emergent Field?" in R. Prendergast and F. Stewart (eds.) Market Forces and World Development, London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Goulet, D. (1971) The Cruel Choice: A New Concept in the Theory of Development (New York: Athenaeum).
- Goulet, D. (1977) The Uncertain Promise: Value Conflicts in Technology Transfer (New York: IDOC/NA).
- [http://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/231.pdf Goulet, Denis (1996) A New Discipline: Development Ethics, The Kellogg Institute Working Papers - Working Paper #231 - August]
- Gunatilleke, G., Neelan Tiruchelvam, and Radhika Coomaraswamy (eds.) (1988) Ethical Dilemmas of Development in Asia, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
- Khader, Serene J. (2011) Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Seers, Dudley (1977) The New Meaning of Development, International Development Review
- Astroulakis, N. (2011), "The development ethics approach to international development", International Journal of Development Issues. https://doi.org/10.1108/14468951111165359
- Astroulakis, N. (2014). The application of development ethics to international development (Doctoral dissertation, University of Crete). National Documentation Centre of Greece. Open Access: https://thesis.ekt.gr/40337
External links
- [http://www.developmentethics.org/ International Development Ethics Association]