Resumen

CABRALES SALAZAR, Omar  y  MARQUEZ, Florentino. THE GOOD LIVING AND NON-CONSUMPTION AS MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GLOBAL BIOETHICS. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp.168-183. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.1726.

This article explains the relationship of industrial activity to the models or ideals of Western progress, which are closely linked to the concept of consumption and economic growth; environments that give meaning to human existence in contemporary era. Likewise, postulates raised to argue the end of modernity and the idea of Western progress, arguing the need to implement other social and economic models, from a bioethical perspective, in which the compensation to the environmental and social damage generated by the exploitation of natural resources during the period of industrialization come first. Also, a new model of economic decline and consumption reduction, structured in the Quechua concept of Good Life or sumak kawsay, which refers to the balance generated by leading a dignified life, which is reflected when it's time to satisfy the basic needs of measured rational consumption and the awareness of the care of the planet, to mitigate damage to the ecosystem as a founding alternative from the perspective of global bioethics.

Palabras clave : economic decline; not consumption; good living; global bioethics.

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