The Role Of The Common Good In Charlotte Bronte's Macintyre

In light of an Aristotelian teleology, MacIntyre (ano) argues that our life qua human life, the flourishing life, cannot be attained without the existence of, and our own contribution to, the political structures of the common good in local communities. In fact, the best possible life, he emphasizes, is impossible to realize without reference to a shared pursuit of any higher common good. This means that, the structures of the common good play a fundamental role in the attainment of both individual and communal goods. Goods that are realized through a variety of shared, cooperative practices and activities oriented by the exercise of virtues. In proposing the politics of local community as a different form of political life and political organization