December 2012
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Polis (Santiago)
The present paper proposes the Andean paradigm of the "GoodLiving" as an alternative to the economical, cultural and social model of a neoliberaland predatory capitalism which is showing serious signals of crisis. These crisesmanifest themselves in the financial, economical, political, axiological andecological fields, so we can talk of a "crisis of civilization". The Andean "GoodLiving" is the expression of a civilization which is opposed in many aspects to thephilosophical and civilizatory paradigm of the occidental world. The contradictionsand tensions between these two models can be appreciated, for example, in theactual process of change in Bolivia.