National development concept from the thought of Álvaro Vieira Pinto

Abstract

This chapter intends to analyze the concept of national development from Álvaro Vieira Pinto’s perspective. The topic is approached using interconnected axes that will point at the direction of reflections found throughout the text. The first axis includes a brief contextualization of the thinker addressing the foundations of the national development ideology. It contains the definition of a set of ideas capable of sustaining and guiding the national development process. The second axis will analyze the contribution that Education can provide and what the Ethics that guides the national collective behavior is. Moreover, through this commitment to implement a project to overcome the status of underdeveloped country. The third axis brings out the challenge of understanding the interdependency and reversible relationships between national and regional development. The author seeks to rethink the elements that produce the ideology of development as a possibility for the implementation of a project of integral emancipation of a nation. It aims to point the way and strategies for the liberation of a nation from the uncomfortable process of dehumanization and oppression of the masses. The purpose of this analysis is to understand the meaning of endogenous national development from Vieira Pinto’s point of view; it seeks to think around and about national and local realities. Ultimately, it aims to think about reality using a double dimension, from the inside to the outside, bottom-up in socioeconomics and cultural terms. It is possible to understand that the best way to develop a critique of the current reality is to keep our mind thinking over the times we live in.

Keywords: Endogenous development. Critical consciousness. Ethics, National reality. Education.