O desenvolvimento sustentável como um estilo de pensamento: uma abordagem histórica

Abstract

This thesis is an investigation about the complexity of styles of thought that are integrated in the construction and systematization of another style of thinking: for sustainable development. The use of Ludwik Fleck's evolutionary historiography, unlike a paradigmatic approach, ruled by immeasurable splits, widens the eyes for the complexity of a transition of thought styles. It is through this historiographic tool that diversified visits are made, both to the styles of thought that are evident in the construction of a proposal for sustainable development - such as environmentalism - and a diverse set of other styles of thought. Many of them present themselves passively in the discourses but carrying a vast coercive and sometimes imperceptible set that preserves the foundations of the culture that created the problems that this sustainable development seeks to solve. The universalities, generally used in an instructive way, stand out here. Truths disseminated as objective status and, because they do not emerge from a dialogical construction, contribute to the configuration of a social system of mutual denials and often, exclusionary. The conclusions that are presented show the style of thinking for sustainable development systematized in the report Our Common Future far from a sustainable human and social development. A proposal that does not access the broad human possibilities of collaborative integration in language, structured in deep constitutive experiences and diverse of our biological-cultural heritage. The proposal for sustainable development analyzed is often reduced to standardizing ideas. It distances itself from all the potential of autonomous construction, of solidary relations and of a complexity that directs the reconnection with the web of life on creative and socially integrating foundations.