[Revised entry by Waheed Hussain and Margaret Kohn on August 14, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
In ordinary political discourse, the “common good” refers to those facilities – whether material, cultural or institutional – that the members of a community provide to all members in order to fulfill a relational obligation they all have to care for certain interests that they have in common. Some canonical examples of the common good in a modern liberal democracy include: the road system; public parks; police protection and public safety; courts and the judicial system; public schools; museums and cultural…

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