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GREEK THOUGHT
The author who first raised the question of the common good was Platón
Platón n argued that the common good as the end of the State transcended private goods while global happiness should be greater than the happiness of individuals.
Aristóteles cited the good of the polis above the particular good insofar as it was the political goal that defined the identity of man. -
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MEDIEVAL THINKING
The human being had to recognize God as the ultimate end to be understood as a whole in itself, whose end was not only in the political community.
Santo Tomás affirmed that human society, as such, has its own ends that are natural ends that must be attended to and must be realized. -
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SPANISH RENAISSANCE
the classical Spanish jurists laid the foundations of a political theory of the common good, on the Christian conception of man they raised a conception of society which was at the service of the person and of history for collaboration with God in the government of the world.
The Spanish theologians of the Renaissance defined the common good as general well-being and as political happiness. -
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MODERNITY MORALITY
In the Modern Age there is a Copernican turn in the field of morality, politics and law.
The need to marginalize the ethical and religious representations of the good life and the common good to a statute of relative and private opinions the notion of good was defended. Therefore, it privatized and relativized. -
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TOMÁS HOBBES
1588-1679 Hobbes was one of the authors who broke with the ethical doctrine of the good life.
Raised the need for relativization of the good.
1640 1649 there was a civil war According to hobbes by clashes of religious opinions.
The abandonment of the notion of the common good brought consequences. -
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GENERAL INTEREST
Jacques Maritain"Yes we distinguish is to unite".
J.J. rousseau 1712-1778 tried to give solution to the dystonia individual society through the concept of the general will that consisted with the synthesis between the individual and the collective.
General will theory was related to Marxismo. -
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CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
Anglosajon liberalism got the general interest.
Incipient liberalism: common good ceases to be of the community and becomes the benefit of the individuals that comprise it. -
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THE DICHOTOMY - JUSTICE / GOOD
The understanding of ethics and politics in current western societies is inherited from the approaches of modern thought where, as we have pointed out, any universalist approach to meaning is rejected. -
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PROCEDIMENTALISMO
Jhon Rawls and Jurgen Habermas
Fairness is identified with fairness or impartiality. -
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THE FAILURE OF THE NEUTRAL STATE / THE CRITICISM OF THE he COMUNITARIAS
En 1970 Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer y Lasdair Maclntyre They put forward the communitarian theory. -
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THE LIBERAL AND COMMUNITARIAN DETERMINACIÓN OF THE COMMON GOOD
The way liberals use to determine the designated common good with the label "general interest" is to combine individual preferences. -
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THE LIBERAL SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY OF COMMON INTEREST
Its starting point is the denunciation of the lack of ethical content in current western politics. -
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THE COMMON GOOD IN THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURC
The social doctrine of the church has been developing since its inception, a magisterial social theory, inherited from scholastic and Renaissance Christian political thought that has strengthened the notion of the common good as the basis of its conception of the political order. -
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THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
The social doctrine of the church was explicitly founded in the 19th century with the document entitled Rerum Novarum, first social encyclical published in 1891 by S. S León XIII.
The DSI also aspires to determine itself from an evangelical character as corresponds to the mission of the church that allows it to lucidly grasp the signs of its time. -
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THE COMMON GOOD FOUNDATION OF ORDER PUBLIC PARTNER
The theme of the common good is addressed for the first time explicitly in Papa Juan XXIII's encyclical.
