Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities
The current work seeks to identify affinities and dissonance between the good living (buen vivir) to which legal and political priority was given in recent constitutional reforms in Ecuador and Bolivia and the common good (bien común), which in a parallel manner is flourishing in public debate in It...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Íconos |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/1208 |
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| Summary: | The current work seeks to identify affinities and dissonance between the good living (buen vivir) to which legal and political priority was given in recent constitutional reforms in Ecuador and Bolivia and the common good (bien común), which in a parallel manner is flourishing in public debate in Italy–and in Europe in general–given several concrete experiences in defending and re- appropriating resources identified as “common.” Such a comparative perspective has brought about two possible interpretations of the relationship between the concepts in question: We can consider the common good as a general concept from which good living would be a local specificity or we can consider it as a constitutive element of the paradigm of good living with respect to which it is found in a relation of implication. |
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| ISSN: | 1390-1249 2224-6983 |