ABSTRACT
The essential task of development ethics is to render development decisions and actions humane. Accordingly, development ethics needs to take its place alongside development economics, politics, anthropology, and planning to analyze and solve problems which are at once economic, social, political, cultural, technical, and ethical in nature. Development ethics has a clear mandate to adopt an intrinsicist methodology or procedure. Its need for a clear view of its tasks and functions is no less acute. Ethics must somehow get inside the value dynamisms of the instruments utilized by development agents and become, as it were, a "means of the means." Ethicists no longer imagine that ethics can exorcise evil from realms of political power simply by preaching noble ideals. Ethicists do not discharge themselves of their duty merely by posing morally acceptable values as goals or ends of economic or political action.
