Common Good

I am against censorship.

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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group’s common good is another group’s evil. Erica Jong

Religious pluralism is neither

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Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has … Read more

One must shed the

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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. \”Good\” is no longer good when one’s neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a \”common good\”! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: … Read more

With a full century

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With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad … Read more

Markets are a social

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Markets are a social construction, they’re made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn’t turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good. … Read more