Una reflexión conceptual del Buen Vivir en Ecuador como alternativa al desarrollo

Abstract

The variety of existing interpretations around the cosmovision of Buen Vivir, which emerged in the last ten years since the inclusion of the aforementioned concept in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008, makes visible the not-so-simple task of transferring ideas from local environments to global scales, in this case the Ecuadorian nation. The present document makes a conceptual reflection around the polysemy of the concept of Buen Vivir in Ecuador, by means of a bibliographic revision of three identified currents of thought, deepening in the similarities and discrepancies between them. Among the main results, it should be noted that differences were found between authors who share the same discourse at the time of constructing the concept and who, despite the heterogeneity of their thinking, certain opposing currents complement each other.