The Common Good in a Low-Organized City

The will rules by harmonizing with the cooperation and participation of the upper other appetites rather than simply by dispatching them willy-nilly according to its own disposition. You can see very clearly in the human soul that the good of the soul cannot be served by destroying the individual faculties of the soul. If you destroy the irascible faculty, that's just going to destroy the person. It's not going to perfect them. And so the common good, if it's really the perfection of the community, it's going to consist in bringing each part to its proper perfection so that they can all work together harmoniously.