ABSTRACT
The expression "the good life" is a neutral term without connotations designating a universal and transhistorical aspiration reflected in various languages, cultures, and periods by means of different concepts such as, for example, Gluck, bonheur, felicita, happiness, etc. but also bamtaare (Pular), sumak kawsay (Quechua), etc. This chapter considers all these expressions as what the Indo-Catalan philosopher and theologian Raimon Panikkar has called "homeomorphic equivalents of the good life". It certainly is a necessity to follow in the opposite direction to the path of economics, which has caused us to move from happiness, the terrestrial form of beatitude, to the GDP per capita through the reduction of experienced well-being to a statistical well-having that is ultimately measured by the quantity of commercial goods consumed individually, without being concerned with others and with nature.
