
Justice and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Question of the Good, the Immorality of Different Regimes
There is a kind of bias worked into the way the question is answered and asked in the classical world that fewer hands on the political common good are better, you know. It's easier to secure a kind of justice if there's only one person making decisions for all instead of a whole. And then there is something about democratic society, and so far as it diffuses in a right-handed decision-making among many. If they can be formed to exercise prudence, really, more than say, with the whole, that should be also something as integral to the health that happens of that society. So it's not on our view there that serves that, but it's not in the
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