Growing in Values June 9th 2020.

INTERNATIONAL KOREAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

Ms Castillo.

Topic: Work for the common good.

Objective: To know the meaning of common good.

Classic examples of common goods are water and air. Water and air can be polluted: water flows can be tapped beyond sustainability, and air is often used in combustion, whether by motor vehicles, smokers, factories, wood fires.

The relevant facilities and interests together constitute the common good and serve as a shared standpoint for political deliberation. ... The common good is an important concept in political philosophy because it plays a central role in philosophical reflection about the public and private dimensions of social life.

It is only through participation as citizens in the political community, or polis, provided by the state that men may achieve the common good of community safety—only as citizens and through active engagement with politics, whether as a public servant, a participant in the deliberation of laws and justice.

The common good is not the good of the majority. It is perfectly possible for the majority to want something good, but for that good thing to be a special interest. ... It is because the people are members of a group that the common good applies to those people.

In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, common weal, general welfare, or public benefit) refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active.

Drinking water, for example, is usually considered a common good. According to the neoclassical theory, common goods are defined among other things by the fact that we compete for their use. If I drink a glass of water, nobody else can enjoy the same water a second time.

ACTIVITY: Read the text and answer the following questions: 

1- What is an example of a common good?

2- Why is common good important?

3- How do we decide what is the common good?

4- Is common good for all majority?

5- What is the common good in society?

6- Is water a common good?

NOTA: Enviar la asignación el día miércoles 10 de Junio 2020.