John Kennedy, SJ Director of a research centre at St Xavier’s College of Education, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu (India)

In today’s world, the myth of ‘development’ is projected as the central value, measured by society’s performance as quantified in terms of Gross National Product, Net National Product, material growth of the economy, standard of living measured in terms of goods and money, etc. This emphasizes the superficial ways of ‘having’ than the more fundamental levels of ‘being’.