Contribuciones de la Investigación Cualitativa para la Comprensión de los Principios Fundamentales de la Persona en las Constituciones de Ecuador y Perú

The research is oriented towards the production of knowledge and is based on legal and ethical principles that ensure the study process and its relationship with the subjects analy-zed. For centuries, the mechanistic ideology affirmed that everything can be explained from experimentation, through trial-error (quantitative research); Subsequently, the philosophy of science arose that said methodology was impossible to predict social phenomena, and the qua-litative approach arose. In this context, legal and ethical principles were created to protect the dignity of the study subjects. Deontology, as an ethical discipline, reflects on the duty to be and the urgency to create norms with their respective sanctions to ensure the common good. Our objective is to analyze the contributions of qualitative research for the understanding of the fun-damental principles of the person in the constitutions of Ecuador and Peru, through the herme-neutic and analytical methods, in both contexts.