Key insights from
The Common Good
By Robert Reich
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10 minute read
Published Feb 20, 2018
What you'll learn
Political science professor Robert Reich makes a case for America recentering its politics, economics, and culture on the concept of the common good. The past fifty years have been a story of win-at-all-costs politics and business strategies that is leaving the country’s social fabric threadbare. The Common Good is a both conciliatory and bracing exhortation to return to responsibility and trust-building.
Key insights
- 1 The common good is more than individual acts of kindness—it’s the wellspring from which those acts are drawn.
- 2 The “virtue” of selfishness has replaced the virtue of pursuing the common good.
- 3 The common good is valuable and voluntary, making it vulnerable to exploitation.
- 4 The win-at-all-costs mentality in politics and business has unraveled America’s social fabric.
- 5 The damage done to the common good is not irreversible.
- 6 Honor and shame need to be appropriately applied, oriented around the common good.
- 7 Civic education must be brought back into schools to keep us free from ignorance and despotism.
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