History of Development Mentality in West (A New Understanding from Ancient Greek to Recent Time)

The article provides a new and different understanding about the history of development mentality in the West. The author argues that the development mentality in any society is a product of the Great Games of Distinction and Contradiction in the history of that society. In this context, the author believes that the history of development mentality in the West, more than any case, is the product of five Great Distinction and Contradiction Games of "Greek/Non-Greek", "Christian/Non-Christian", "Premodern/Modern", "Orthodox/Radical" and "Modern/Postmodern". He explains the roles of these five Great Games of Distinction and Contradiction in the history of development mentality in the West due to the current content and form and believes that the current game of "Modern/Postmodern" instead of death of the development mentality lead to the immortality and historical incompleteness of development mentality in the west, Because “the post-development stream“ (as a product of the Distinction and Contradiction Game of "Modern/Postmodern"), is a part of development mentality feild in the West and grow of the post-developmentalism will smooth the basis of emergence of "logical literature of development" in future rethinking, at least theoretically.