University of Tehran Iranian Journal of Public Policy 2538-5577 1 3 2015 08 23 The Game of Distinction and Contradiction; a New Approach to Understanding the History of Development Mentality The Game of Distinction and Contradiction; a New Approach to Understanding the History of Development Mentality 81 97 57680 10.22059/ppolicy.2015.57680 FA Sajjad Sattari Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Tehran Journal Article 2016 06 13 Author has defined the history of development mentality as "history of searching a possible better living situation for the man in the world" and has considered three characteristics "eternity, relativity and historical incompleteness" for it, because, according to him, searching such situation has no modern beginning, is not specifically European and is not essentially exhaustible. The author, then, has separated the allegory of "Game" from its traditional applications such as Wittgenstein, Gadamer and Derrida pragmatics contain and has formulated "The Game of Distinction and Contradiction" approach as a theoretical tool to understand the history of development mentality and has stabilized it on ten principal bases. In his view, the history of development mentality in any society, more than any other factor, is the product of the great Games of Distinction and Contradiction that occurred in the history of that society and every society has its own special unique history of development mentality led to stimulate the Presentness of mind life and the lived human experience in the society and his future possibilities in that society Author has defined the history of development mentality as "history of searching a possible better living situation for the man in the world" and has considered three characteristics "eternity, relativity and historical incompleteness" for it, because, according to him, searching such situation has no modern beginning, is not specifically European and is not essentially exhaustible. The author, then, has separated the allegory of "Game" from its traditional applications such as Wittgenstein, Gadamer and Derrida pragmatics contain and has formulated "The Game of Distinction and Contradiction" approach as a theoretical tool to understand the history of development mentality and has stabilized it on ten principal bases. In his view, the history of development mentality in any society, more than any other factor, is the product of the great Games of Distinction and Contradiction that occurred in the history of that society and every society has its own special unique history of development mentality led to stimulate the Presentness of mind life and the lived human experience in the society and his future possibilities in that society https://jppolicy.ut.ac.ir/article_57680_d45ea4f120a7140dcd8fcadf36a231a9.pdf