The Common Good

Catalog description

This course will examine a fundamental historical group: its commitment to the common good. It operates from the thesis that all organizations and societies share certain characteristics in regard to the common good that, despite differences in time, place, and ideology, remain the same. As such, the course seeks to understand the dynamics of the common good - what it is comprised of, how various communities have embraced or rejected it, and what the consequences were of those choices.