El tejido entre la espiritualidad cristiana y el desarrollo humano: una aproximación desde la perspectiva de Martha Nussbaum

Abstract

Human development is presented as a modern and necessary concept to be addressed today. For this reason, many thinkers propose viewing human beings not only in terms of their economic capacity, but also in terms of the freedoms they can achieve and the capabilities they can develop. Bearing this in mind, this thesis focuses on demonstrating the contribution of Christian spirituality to human development. To achieve this, three main theoretical categories were developed: the human horizon, the inner source, and the interplay between the human and the inner. These three categories are centered on addressing the concept of human development, primarily according to the proposal of philosopher Martha Nussbaum, spirituality, primarily centered on Christianity, and the relationship between these concepts. The methodology used in this work is qualitative with an interpretive hermeneutic approach. Nine podcast-style interviews were conducted based on the Juipi methodology, where each person spoke from their own experience, comfort, and honesty. All this work made it possible to understand how the spirituality of these nine people is able to contribute to and enhance human development, not only from the perspective of the 10 capabilities proposed by Nussbaum, but also from new categories that emerged during the research and that contribute to human development, likewise, allowing us to consider spirituality as fundamental to human development and generating the proposal of a new capability, capable of enhancing the existing ones.