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What are the necessary conditions of the possibility of "the common good"?

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Gamwell speaks of "the common good" somewhere as "the substance of the public world--economicworld—economic, cultural, associational-that associational—that each inherits." I would want to add-as add—as he himself often says or implies-implies—"and to which each is called to contribute." The point of the above reflection is that "the substance of the public world" includes both content and structure--both structure—both "the flourishing or well-being of every individual in the community" and "the structures of order necessary thereto."

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