THE CONFLICT BETWEEN FALSE VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE: THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS A NEW VISION OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This article aims to examine the concepts of sustainable development and sustainability from the human-nature relationship, its implication in production modes, consumption patterns, its influence on the cultural heritage of peoples and biodiversity. It seeks to demonstrate that such concepts are being appropriated by Cartesian-mechanistic reasoning, dictated by the technoscience of a globalized world, ordered by the capitalist vision and the logic of markets. In addition, this article, of an exploratory nature and based on a bibliographic review, is developed with the use of the deductive method to question the aforementioned paradigm of dominant knowledge and proposes a critical reading of such themes, through environmental rationality, which emerges from interdisciplinary environmental knowledge, founded by systemic visions, to rescue the subjectivity of the being, through the concepts of alterity and responsibility and, in the end, present a new vision of human development.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.001-036