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I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
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For the Common Good: Unleashing the Power of Passion, Purpose& Hope
Why common good matters
‘Only by inspiring a spiritual and practical commitment to the common good can we help make our common life better.’
There is an ancient idea that we have lost, but can and should find again. It’s called simply the common good. It goes back many centuries, but the need for a new dialogue about what it means and what its practice would require of us has never seemed more critical.
But what is the Common Good? A Brief Introduction
Notions of the Common Good have been central to conceptions of society since Plato and Aristotle, and have been described in fairly consistent ways since then. There has been general agreement that the search for “…the common good is disciplined yearning, deliberation, judgment, and action in concrete realization of the best, most choiceworthy way to live” and that “Its most basic meaning is that the community and its institutions should serve the good of all its citizens and not just the restricted good of a particular ruler or class.”
Put more simply, the Common Good is advanced when society’s institutions, including foundations, operate in the interests of the broadest possible swath of people.
In short, the Common Good is much more than the aggregate of individual goods and accomplishments. Rather, it reflects both the morality and the enlightened self-interest that allows institutions across society to operate so that all might enjoy a life of justly and humanely distributed resources, rewards, responsibilities and obligations.
The Journey to Build a Better World for the Common Good
- Taxes and the Common Good
- What is the Significance of Money: A Perspective from Prof. Stephen Hawking
- Prime Minister May- Britain needs a New Economic Model
- Doing Good for the Common Good is Good for Us: A Proven Fact Now
- Our Emotional Inheritance and the need for Emotional Education
- Brexit: The Key Lessons- Now is the time for hope to build on the ruins
- EU Referendum: An Open Letter to British people - One man's view of Britain and the British