Abstract
The chapter begins by examining the nature of the European culture within which the contemporary discipline of Human Development took its first form and its difference from the psychological perspectives based on the Indian Culture. It examines the key ideas related to ‘evolution’ and ‘development’ as conceptualised by major developmental thinkers. Two broad metatheoretical perspectives—the Neo-Darwinian metatheory and the Relational Metatheory based on Willis. F. Overtons’s works are examined in terms of their ontology, epistemology, metamethods and their view on the nature of human development. The progress and limitations of these two metatheories are analysed with reference to the agenda of the rational age as outlined by Sri Aurobindo in the ‘Human Cycle’.
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