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    The common good refers to facilities and institutions that benefit all members of a community. Examples include basic rights and freedoms, police and fire departments, national defense, courts, highways, schools, and natural resources. Providing these elements often requires individual sacrifice through taxes. Many social problems today stem from failures of the common good.

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    The common good refers to facilities and institutions that benefit all members of a community. Examples include basic rights and freedoms, police and fire departments, national defense, courts, highways, schools, and natural resources. Providing these elements often requires individual sacrifice through taxes. Many social problems today stem from failures of the common good.

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    The common good refers to facilities and institutions that benefit all members of a community. Examples include basic rights and freedoms, police and fire departments, national defense, courts, highways, schools, and natural resources. Providing these elements often requires individual sacrifice through taxes. Many social problems today stem from failures of the common good.

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    The Common Good

    The “common good”


    refers to those facilities
    or institutions that
    benefit all members of a
    given community.

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    The common good contrasts with
    those things that benefit only specific
    individuals or parts of the
    community.
    “
    Examples of elements making up the common good
    include basic rights and freedoms, police and fire
    departments, national defense, courts of law, highways,
    public schools, safe food and water, and natural
    resources.

    4
    In most cases, providing the elements
    of the common good requires a
    degree of individual sacrifice such as
    the payment of new or higher taxes.

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    Today, many impactful social
    problems are caused by the lack or
    failure of essential elements of the
    common good.
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    Common Good
    “Common good” refers to those
    facilities or institutions that all A few of the things making up the common good
    or most members of a in a modern democracy might include basic rights
    community agree are necessary and freedoms, a transportation system, cultural
    to satisfy certain interests they institutions, police and public safety, a judicial
    system, an electoral system, public education,
    have in common
    clean air and water, safe and ample food supply,
    and national defense

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    Examples:
    “The new bridge “We will all profit
    will serve the from the new
    common good” convention center.”

    Because the systems and facilities of the common good impact all
    members of the society, it stands to reason that most social
    problems are in some way tied to how well or poorly these
    systems and facilities are working.
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    HISTORY
    Despite its increasing importance in modern society, the concept of
    the common good was first mentioned over two thousand years ago
    in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. As early as the second
    century AD, Catholic religious tradition defined the common good 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 fulfilment.”

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    Processing questions

    1. Why are we considered as fundamentally social creatures?

    2. What do you mean by the line “My good includes yours


    and vice-versa?

    3. In your own definition, what is common good?

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