
Harvey Mansfield on Locke, Aristotle, and the Spirit of Liberalism
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Common Good Conservatives - What Is the Common Good?
Aristotle doesn't present the common good as one thing, he presents two ways of looking at it. The common benefit is what each individual has and which we all have in common like susceptibility to a common cold. Common good conservatives don't want to abandon their attack on generic liberalism that dates from the 17th century. This is a problem for common good conservatives because here are people who are liberals fighting for liberal democracy.
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