.... For Mill, rights are products of empirically discoverable psychological tendencies, including the interest of all in protection by society. Meanwhile, Green argues that for rights to exist is for people not only to conceive them, but also to understand them to serve a common good that each conceives as his...

...The editors outline their methodology to explore the term “common good.” They touch on shared spaces, a rhetoric of hope, political economies, social movements, and host of issues. The structure of the volume is also outlined. the common Connolly William Crockett Clayton earth democracy God...

... capitalism as a metaphor and highlight the contentious dimensions that have provoked the search for working alternatives: the protection of dignity or intrinsic value as well as the promotion of the well-being or the common good. I then suggest that the way we organize on individual, group, organizational...

...This chapter focuses on the relation of the person to the common good. It argues that the entire moral life is seen by St. Thomas as grounded in the relation of the particular created person to the uncreated Personal Being who is God. This is, in and of itself, a relation of a particular good...

...This chapter questions John Finnis's interpretation of Thomas Aquinas, concerning the specifically political common good. It is evident that Thomas limits the zone of human life subject to direction by the human legislator. Not only is God to be obeyed rather than man, but man's jurisdiction over...

...According to the ideals of capitalism, selfishness and greed are not vices but contribute to the common good, because of the invisible hand of the market. Today these ideals are increasingly called into question, based in part on the experience of sustained economic hardship and downturn. Rather...

...This chapter explores the debate between liberalism and communitarianism. It shows that placing a high value on individuals and their rights does not entail sacrificing the common good or the good of the community. To begin with, both personal identity and individual rights are inseparably linked...

... and the institutions that constitute a common good for humanity, and if it is true, more importantly, that no one can elude murderous consent, then the paradox of murderous consent is that humanity's common good turns against life itself. Rather than merely accept, encourage, and promote the destruction of life...

...Respect for human dignity and the common good in democratic regimes cannot be sustained by reason alone. Citizen faith commitments endorsing both of these values are necessary. However, negotiating in practice the relationship between civic values and religious morality...