NEW ETHICAL PARADIGMS IN POLICIES AND JURISPRUDENCE ON NATURAL RIGHTS

Abstract

In the midst of an environment of multiple crises and social reactions (economic crisis, social crisis, crisis of democratic legitimacy, crisis of political representation, etc.), several Latin American countries experienced constituent processes of a new type, which not only made it possible appease much of the conflict, but opened up to new ways of conceiving and resolving it. The recognition of the rights of nature in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 materialized a transcendent aspiration of important social groups that had resisted, for decades, the prospects of environmental capitalism. Closely related to the concept of Sumak Kawsay or Good Living, the rights of nature