Harvey Mansfield on Locke, Aristotle, and the Spirit of Liberalism
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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The Body, the Body, and the Common Good
The benefit in common means a good which is not individual, but arises from its appeal to people generally. And an example would be a musician who gives a benefit to the community where he plays and is known. But it's a benefit which is distributed unequally, because he has it the most. He's the best listener to the best player. This has to do more with the soul. So those are based on the body. These things are almost all have to do with the body. The way sing which we all have bodies that suggest, subject us to problems or difficulties, and of course most generally mortality. That make us all or at least give the basis for making us think all
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