Bullish on the Common Good?

May 12, 2020 | by Joseph E. Capizzi and V. Bradley Lewis

The common good is the final cause of political association, not least because practical decisions are always decisions about achieving what is good and avoiding what is bad. But invoking the common good under the influence of De Koninck, Maritain, or even Aquinas doesn’t on its own advance the political conversation that characterizes a healthy polity.