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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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
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description | 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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spelling | doaj-art-a62599959af9494f8d5d4fecdee0737b2025-02-03T00:42:26ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832014-01-011848415410.17141/iconos.48.2014.1208Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance AffinitiesFrancesca Belotti0Sapienza Universidad de RomaThe 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.https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/1208good livingcommon goodmovementsfundamental rightscommon goods |
spellingShingle | Francesca Belotti Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities Íconos good living common good movements fundamental rights common goods |
title | Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities |
title_full | Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities |
title_fullStr | Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities |
title_full_unstemmed | Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities |
title_short | Between the Common Good and Good Living: Long-Distance Affinities |
title_sort | between the common good and good living long distance affinities |
topic | good living common good movements fundamental rights common goods |
url | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/1208 |
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