Results 221 to 230 of about 2,254,732 (262)

Governing for the Common Good

Health Care Analysis, 2015
The proper object of global health governance (GHG) should be the common good, ensuring that all people have the opportunity to flourish. A well-organized global society that promotes the common good is to everyone's advantage. Enabling people to flourish includes enabling their ability to be healthy.
openaire   +2 more sources

Chemists for the common good

Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 2017
HIST Award address by Ursula Klein. Like their British, French and Swedish colleagues, the late eighteenth-century Prussian chemists performed technological experiments and works of invention. Franz Carl Achard transformed the laboratory of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences into a "beet factory" in order to test the production of beet sugar on a ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Good News for Common Goods

2023
Abstract There has been a lot of bad news about evangelical Christianity and democracy in America in recent years. In Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America, sociologist Wes Markofski draws on twelve months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta, and Boston
openaire   +1 more source

A/the Common Good

The American Journal of Jurisprudence
Abstract The emerging school of “common good constitutionalism” takes a classical natural law approach of identifying the central case of law and constitutionalism, recognizing that a state may make positive law in part based on circumstance, convenience, or a need for social coordination. While law under the classical approach is rooted
openaire   +2 more sources

The common good

2013
The common good is an essentially contested concept in contemporary moral and political discussions. Although the notion of the common good has a slightly antique air, especially in discussions in the North Atlantic, it has figured prominently in both the sophisticated theoretical accounts of moral and political theory in recent years and also in the ...
P. C. Lo, David Solomon
openaire   +2 more sources

In Defense of the Common Good

The American Journal of Jurisprudence
Abstract Vermeule argues that law should uphold community morality, and critiques originalists and progressivists for losing sight of this. Though his critique is powerful, the book shares those problems Vermeule diagnoses in the work of others.
openaire   +1 more source

Whose good is the common good?

Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2012
Reference to the common good has increased in recent political discourse, not only on the right but also on the left. This development partly reflects genuine limitations in the liberal model of politics, and thus should not be dismissed as mere rhetoric.
openaire   +1 more source

Common Good and Individual Good

This chapter explores medieval Latin developments that led to the separation of the common good and the good of an individual. It starts by presenting two different explanations for why acting morally well is difficult: either morality demands aiming for the common good at the expense of one’s own good, or it requires developing a virtuous character ...
openaire   +1 more source

For the Common Good

2018
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? What, exactly, is higher education good for? This book challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history.
openaire   +1 more source

Common good

Nursery World
London Early Years Foundation chief executive June O'Sullivan explains why the nursery group is setting up an Early Years Social Enterprises Collective
openaire   +1 more source