UNCC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Catholic Social Teaching, Global Dimension, Society Of Jesus
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What it means to live in community, flouish and strive for good life within relationships. The common good really contains or includes a series of particular goods; we all have certain needs in order for us to flourish. Live healthily, we have physical needs, we have needs to exercise our minds, to grow in virtue, and so we create social institutions. Velasquez, manuel, claire andre, thomas shanks, s. j. , and michael j. The common good. " markkula centre for applied ethics. santa. Previously published in issues in ethics 5, no. 1 (1992). Notion that originated over two thousand years ago in the writings of. John rawls, defined the common good as "certain general conditions that areequally to everyone"s advantage" Catholic religious tradition defines as "the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their individual members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfillment. " Individuals can become "free riders" by taking the benefits the.