The essay on the common good talks about the innate idea of human goodness. It raises the questions do we all have an innate desire to do well? It answers yes and says that our participation to do things such as park cleaning fuels our common good and it is in everyone to do good. However with the attitude people have today of individual freedom common seems to be obsolete. In todays world everyone seems to be out for there own good and the personal good. Americans especially have an idea of individualism, families hardly stay together anymore. Will the common good remain is the question? This stood out to me.
With the common good comes the common bad that silently battle each other. People who clean up parks know that there battle is against the polluters of the world but all they can do is pick up after them. I think it is necessary for America as a nation to believe in the common good. If the common good is believed in, people will continue to feed it and it will flourish. People must help grow the common good by getting involved in their communties and working as volunteers in the world. We must speak for those who have no voice, get jobs available to those who have know money, hope to those who have none, and freedom to those who are slaves in their nations.
I believe Madison would believe strongly in this essay except for the part that says that individual freedoms has lead to the decline in the common good. Madison would probably agree in the idea of human good as well as encourage it.
"With the common good comes the common bad that silently battle each other."
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that also jumped out at me. It is a very interesting concept. It is almost as if it is a never ending vicious cycle. It is almost impossible to reach a common good. There will always be the people trying to attain the concept of a common good, but a what cost?
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