The Common Good in the Middle Ages

The notion of the common good is distinct, not just from totalitarianism, but also from extreme personalism. So you can end up having it be a personal good where the state is merely instrumental in achieving it. The political order is purely an instrument for the sake of entirely personal life. Whereas our idea or the idea of the commonGood that we're advocating here is that it's the highest good for the individual. But the highest good as common.