Parajumbles Question 2 - CAT 2021

Question

But today there is an epochal challenge to rethink and reconstitute the vision and practice of development as a shared responsibility – a sharing which binds both the agent and the audience, the developed world and the developing, in a bond of shared destiny.

We are at a crossroads now in our vision and practice of development.

This calls for the cultivation of an appropriate ethical mode of being in our lives which enables us to realize this global and planetary situation of shared living and responsibility.

Half a century ago, development began as a hope for a better human possibility, but in the last fifty years, this hope has lost itself in the dreary desert of various kinds of hegemonic applications.

Correct Sequence: 2413
Explanation: Sentence 2 acts as the macro overview anchor, stating that we are currently at a "crossroads" regarding the vision of development. Sentence 4 provides the historical background context explaining how we arrived here, contrasting the hope of fifty years ago with the modern "dreary desert of hegemonic applications." Sentence 1 pivots back to our modern day using the timeline phrase "But today...", outlining the challenge to reconstitute development as a shared global responsibility. Sentence 3 concludes the logic flow by using the demonstrative marker "This calls for..." to define the precise ethical behavior modifications needed to live out that shared destiny.
FundaMakers Tip: Chronological Tracking. Paragraphs that review philosophical or socio-economic movements generally present a present problem (Sentence 2), look backward into historical context (Sentence 4), return to a modern call to action (Sentence 1), and conclude with an implementation step (Sentence 3).