Searching for the Common Good: Philosophical, Theological and Economical Approaches

Cover -- Introduction -- Boundaries -- From the particular to the universal: common goods -- The common good and political philosophy -- Historic overview. Recalling the richness and complexity of a notion and its selective transmission to modernity -- The Language of the Common Good in Scholastic Political Thought -- Politics Pointing beyond the Polis and the Politeia: Aquinas on Natural Law and the Common Good -- I. Natural Right and Natural Law: Aquinas's "Tendentious Glosses" on Nicomachean Ethics V.7 -- II. Natural Law and the Problem of Regime-Relative Political Virtue -- III. Natural Law, Magnanimity cum Humility, and Contemporary Politics -- The common good: still pertinent today? The Economy -- Building the common good and making it grow -- I. The diagnosis: denial or (ideological) blindness, and systemic transformation -- II. The common good: an ideal orientation for action -- III. Directions of actions aimed at the common good -- IV. Systemic dynamics geared to the common good -- The Common Good and the Civil Economy -- Introduction -- What is civil economy? -- The common good as a category of economic thinking -- The return of the 'common good' category -- Prospects for action, and a concluding note -- Defining the common good in terms of capabilities -- Definitions -- Real versus formal freedom -- Freedom of choice and reason to value -- Conclusion -- The common good: Still pertinent today? Theological and political philosophy -- Searching for the common good -- Introduction -- Part 1: Why the notion was rejected -- 1. The operational need for the common good -- 2. Liberal criticism and its inconsistencies -- 2.1 The totalitarian nature of the notion of the common good and the retreat on the question of justice -- 2.2 Rawls's use of the notion of the common good -- 2.3 The contractualist inversion of eschatology and protology