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  1. The common good has been an important concern of moral and political philosophy since ancient times, and a politics of the common good was often contrasted with corrupt government and the pursuit of narrow self-interest.

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  2. Jul 21, 2011 · This paper is the draft of a chapter of a Handbook; it explains the meaning of common good in the Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy and in the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church; why the...

  3. Feb 26, 2018 · This article reviews the philosophical literature, covering various points of agreement among traditional conceptions of the common good, such as those favored by Plato, Aristotle, John Locke, J.J. Rousseau, Adam Smith, G.W.F. Hegel, John Rawls and Michael Walzer.

  4. Thomas Aquinas (1981, 1997) revived Aristotelian theory. The common good acquires its meaning in governance: “to govern is to lead what is governed to its appropriate end” (1997, Book II, c. 3). The purpose of man is to contemplate and enjoy the highest of goods, God.

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  5. In my paper I will seek to elucidate the ontological presuppositions and conceptual premises underlying the classical theory of the common good which, in my view, allow to avoid both the reduction and the opposition of the common good to individual goods and rights.

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  6. WHAT KIND OF CREATURES ARE WE? LECTURE III: WHAT IS THE COMMON GOOD? topics of language and thought. Close inquiry reveals, I think, that.

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  8. Apr 4, 2024 · George Duke offers three interpretations of the meaning of the collective common good: (1) an instrumental concept according to which the political common good is subordinate and instrumental to the realization of basic common goods, such as knowledge, friendship, etc.; (2) the aggregative common good that consists in the realization of some ...

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