scholarly journals THE IDEALISM OF DIALOGUE AND THE ECONOMY OF THE COMMONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Fernando Suárez Müller ◽  
Christian Felber
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Cooperative Action ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the possibility of an economic system different from both capitalism and communism, that is based on the major ethical values that constitute the principles of human dialogue, the so-called Idealism of Dialogue. This implies an economic model based on cooperativism. An economy modelled in this way envisions the Common Good of society. This is more than the sum of the interests of individuals and it can be measured by looking at the intended impact on society of actions taken by organizations. If the impact of these organizations is oriented towards cooperative action they can be characterized as developing the Common Good. If they block cooperative action they can be seen to be serving private interests. This paper shows how a group of Austrian entrepreneurs has started a network of enterprises that functions both as a kind of cooperative and as a non-governmental organization (Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie). They promote the ideals of Greek oỉkonomía and at the same time consider their own efforts to be the accomplishment of the main principles of Enlightenment which are liberty, equality and fraternity. 

The Common Good and the Open Society

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Dupré
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Moral Pluralism ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

The term common good has been used in so many ways that it would be difficult to find any political thinker, however individualistically oriented, who has not, in one form or another embraced it. The classical definition, formulated in the Middle Ages on the basis of Aristotelian principles, referred to a good proper to, and attainable only by, the community, yet individually shared by its members. As such the common good is at once communal and individual. Still, it does not coincide with the sum total of particular goods and exceeds the goals of inter-individual transactions. Once the idea of community lost its ontological ultimacy (mainly under the impact of nominalist thought), a struggle originated between the traditional conception of the community as an end in itself and that of its function to protect the private interests of its members. Eventually the latter theory prevailed and, after it became reinforced by resistance movements against repressive national government policies, it led to a doctrine of individual rights as independent of society. The intellectual and moral pluralism of recent times has made theorists reluctant to attribute any specific content to the notion of a common good. At a time when national communities face an increasing integration with one another in a world of dwindling resources, such a privatization seems inappropriate. The article argues for a restoration of an idea of the common good which incorporates individual rights without separating them from their social context.

The Role of Families, Schools, and Colleges

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-181
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Rhode
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
Intrinsic Motivations ◽  
The Common

This chapter explores the challenges for families and schools in channeling ambitions in more productive directions. Today’s adolescents confront a world of growing pressures, which are also increasing mental health challenges. Parents’ vicarious ambitions can compound the problems if they push children to focus too much on extrinsic markers of success at the expense of intrinsic motivations to learn and ethical values. Both schools and families should help students to develop persistence, resilience, a strong moral compass, and commitment to the common good. Opportunities for service learning, internships and mentorships can encourage constructive ambitions. So too, parents and colleges must better control the preoccupation with prestige that has hijacked admission processes and encouraged gaming the system. Educators should also modify admission criteria such as legacy, donor, and athletic preferences that advantage already advantaged applicants.

scholarly journals Informing Systems as the Transformers of Information Wave into Virtual Civilization and Their Ethics Question

10.28945/2264 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 177-204
Author(s):  
Andrew S Targowski
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this investigation is to define the central contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the Virtual Civilization’s elements of development and their interdependency. Among the findings are: Virtual Civilization has infrastructural characteristics, a world-wide unlimited, socially constructed work and leisure space in cyberspace, and it can last centuries/millennia - as long as informing systems are operational. Practical implications: The mission of Virtual Civilization is to control the public policy of real civilizations in order to secure the common good in real societies. Social implication: The quest for the common good by virtual society may limit or even replace representative democracy by direct democracy which, while positively solving some problems, may eventually trigger permanent political chaos in real civilizations. Originality: This investigation, by providing an interdisciplinary and civilizational approach at the big-picture level defined the ethics question of the role of informing systems in the development of Virtual Civilization.

scholarly journals Rooting out Poverty: People, Passion, and Place at Station 20 West

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Lisa Erickson ◽  
Isobel Findlay ◽  
Colleen Christopherson-Cote
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
Campus Engagement ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

This case study summarizes and discusses our project exploring the impact of co-location, connectedness, and community-campus collaboration in addressing the root causes of poverty and our efforts to build capacities in Saskatoon. The site of this study is Station 20 West, a community enterprise centre in the heart of Saskatoon’s inner city that opened in the fall of 2012 as a result of community knowledge, participation, and determination to act for the common good. We share our findings, lessons learned, and project team reflections which underscore the connectedness of poverty reduction and reconciliation, the importance of including those with lived and diverse experience in community-campus engagement (CCE), and the hallmarks of good CCE.

For the Common Good

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Common ◽  
Good For

This chapter argues that citizens should vote in ways that promote the common good rather than in ways that promote their self-interest at the expense of the common good. The egoistic view of voting holds that citizens rightly may choose government policies maximally favorable to themselves, regardless of what cost these programs impose upon others. In contrast, the public-spirited view holds that citizens ought to vote for the common good. On this view, citizens must not aim for purely private interests, especially when such interests come at the expense of the common good. Voters should look for policies good for all, rather than seeking to exploit their fellow citizens through government.

Republicanism and Public Affairs

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Iseult Honohan
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
First Century ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Irish Republicanism ◽  
The Common ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Although Irish republicanism is often elided with separatist nationalism, broader republican ideals of freedom, self-government, and the common good have also been prominent in Irish political discourse. This chapter examines the relationship of Irish republican thinking with the wider historical republican tradition and its contemporary expressions, and it assesses the impact of those ideals in Irish politics. In the state’s first century national freedom coexisted with extensive relationships of domination. Self-government was constrained within narrow institutional forms. The common good was defined in communitarian and authoritarian terms, and was often obscured by sectional interests. Extensive social and political changes that have taken place more recently have been in a mainly liberal direction, with less emphasis on republican ideals. Yet republican ideals have a continuing relevance for the wider concerns faced by contemporary Irish society.

scholarly journals PERKAWINAN BEDA AGAMA DAN DAMPAKNYA TERHADAP PENDIDIKAN ANAK DI DESA WONOREJO KABUPATEN SITUBONDO

Fenomena ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-266
Author(s):  
Muhaiminah Darajat
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Interfaith Marriage ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Future ◽  
Interfaith Marriages ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Religious Differences

Manusia adalah makluk sosial yang tidak mungkin bisa hidup tanpa bantuan orang lain. Karena itu, ia hidup bermasyarakat dan mengembangkan kebudayaan serta peradaban untuku kepentingan bersama. Maka pernikahan merupakan jalan dalam bersosialisasi dengan manusia lainnya. Akan tetapi jika pernikahan dihadapkan pada masalah perbedaan terutama perbedaan agama maka hal ini menjadi rumit untuk menjalankan roda kehidupan kedepan. Sebab, jika sudah memiliki anak maka hal ini dapat menimbulkan kegoncangan pada diri anak. Ia akan ragu untuk memilih antara agama ayah atau ibunya. Islam sangat jelas sekali dalam mengatur hal ini. Penelitian kualitatif deskriptif ini, bermaksud untuk mengungkap hasil dari pada pernikahan beda agama tersebut, yaitu dampak Pernikahan antar agama bagi kelangsungan pendidikan anak desa Wonorejo Kabupaten Situbondo. Dari studi penelitian yang ada terungkap bahwa Pernikahan antar agama bagaimanapun tetap merugikan, terlebih bila dipandang dari sudut pedagogis, sebab secara tidak langsung berarti sudah mempersiapkan lingkungan yang kurang baik bagi kedua belah pihak (pasangan dan keluarganya masing-masing) serta bagi kelangsungan pendidikan anak-anaknya. Social creatures, that's humans who cannot possibly live without the help of others. Therefore, he lives in society and develops culture and civilization for the common good. So marriage is a way of socializing with other humans. However, if marriage is faced with the problem of differences, especially religious differences, it becomes complicated to run the wheel of life in the future. Because, if you already have children, this can cause shock in the child. He will hesitate to choose between the religion of his father or mother. Islam is very clear in regulating this. This descriptive qualitative research, intends to reveal the results of the interfaith marriage, namely the impact of interfaith marriage for the continuity of education for the children of Wonorejo village, Situbondo City. From existing research studies, it is revealed that interfaith marriages are still detrimental, especially when viewed from a pedagogical point of view, because it indirectly means that they have prepared an unfavorable environment for both parties (spouse and their respective families) as well as for the continuity of children's education. his son.

scholarly journals The Concealments of Carbon Markets and the Publicity of Love in a Time of Climate Change

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Northcott
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Carbon Emissions Trading ◽  
Cooperative Action ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Cooperative Approach ◽  
The Common ◽  
Earth’S Climate

AbstractThe Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have failed to engage the nations in a cooperative approach to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are destabilizing the earth’s climate. Central to this failure is the resort to neo-liberal market techniques—and in particular markets in carbon emissions—for the management of emissions reduction. The resort to Carbon Emissions Trading (CET) reveals the problematic philosophical premises of economic neoliberalism, which include a preference for anonymous algorithms as managers of human affairs over face-to-face political communities and shared engagement of citizens and corporations in practices that promote the common good of a stable climate. It is proposed in this article that a core task of the church’s public responsibility in relation to climate change is to offer a theological critique of neoliberal approaches to climate change mitigation and against these to advance a spiritual theology of cooperative action for the common good of a stable climate in which love for near and distant neighbours, and creatures, is the key metaphor.

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