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Step 7 of 7~8 min read
Reflection: Living Well
Reflect on what Buen Vivir demands and what your own idea of the good life contains.
Prompts to consider
- Buen Vivir defines the good life as relational, ecological, and intergenerational, not as the maximization of individual welfare. Map your own implicit conception of the good life. How much of it is individual (achievements, experiences, satisfactions) and how much is relational and ecological? What would it cost you to reorient toward Sumak Kawsay?
- Ayni, reciprocity, requires that what you take from ==Pachamama==, you return. Not as an abstract environmental principle but as a concrete relational obligation. What would it mean to practice ayni in your own life with respect to the living world you depend on? What would you owe, and to whom?
- Ecuador granted ==Pachamama== constitutional rights in 2008. The governments that did so still pursued extractive industries. Does this make the constitutional gesture meaningless, or is there value in institutionalizing an ontological claim even when practice contradicts it? What is the relationship between law and lived philosophy?
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