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Mar 16, 2018 · The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “The common good is no longer a fashionable idea,” writes Robert Reich in his latest book, The Common Good. Yet renewing the concept, he argues, is urgent: “If there is no common good,” he writes, “there is no society.”. Reich’s new title offers both a careful ...
account of the common good. In the second part, I turn to Aquinas, making some general remarks about what he understands by the term “common good.” In the third, I outline his understanding of the specifically political common good, which he identifies as happiness, or the life of virtue. The fourth part focuses on the need
common good, that which benefits society as a whole, in contrast to the private good of individuals and sections of society. From the era of the ancient Greek city-states through contemporary political philosophy, the idea of the common good has pointed toward the possibility that certain goods, such as security and justice, can be achieved ...
May 8, 2013 · Sandel ends his book championing a new politics of the common good, and suggests four possible themes that would support it. Citizenship, sacrifice, and service. He writes “If a just society requires a strong sense of community, it must find a way to cultivate in citizens a concern for the whole, a dedication to the common good.”
Agafia was the daughter of Svyatoslav III Igorevich [1] and his wife Yaroslava Rurikovna, a daughter of prince Rurik Rostislavich of Belgorod . Between 1207 and 1210, Agafia arrived in Poland to marry Konrad I of Masovia. [1] The marriage was for political reasons, as her father had become an ally of Leszek I the White and wanted to improve ...
Apr 2, 2018 · THE COMMON GOOD. By Robert B. Reich. 193 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $22.95. In recent decades, American public discourse has become hollow and shrill. Instead of morally robust debates about the common ...
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Feb 20, 2018 · Robert B. Reich. 4.09. 2,569 ratings382 reviews. From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics. With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices ...
