Editorial: Encountering Shared Grounds for Humanization

• Main Author: Canuday, Jose Jowel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/stjgs/vol10/iss2/13; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/stjgs/article/1021/viewcontent/ST_2010.2_201_20Editorial_20__20Canuday.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt from Editorial: How to think about the common good and find shared grounds of connections under conditions of societal fragmentation? What does it take to do good for public ends? Are political means and citizens’ actions the only path to building the common good and finding a common ground? The notion of the common good traverses Western political philosophy, dating back to the ethical writings of ancient Greece through the European Enlightenment. From such a vantage, the common good arises requiring active state and citizen relations. Such a viewpoint, however, suggests a singular instrumentalist precondition by which the common good can be secured. The idea of a single common good has since evolved toward the recognition of variable other acts and projects in constructing relations that care for everyone, ranging from serving the public interest to emphasizing the value of individual freedom.