Friendship and the Common Good | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0	In his 1943 essay on the primacy of the common good against the personalists, Charles
0:08.7	DeConnick takes issue with several aspects of the doctrine of human dignity that various
0:13.1	personalist writers at the time were advancing.
0:16.8	One particular aspect of the new personalist doctrine that troubled DeKonic concerned friendship,
0:23.0	namely what some personalist writers were theorizing regarding the source of the love that develops between friends.
0:30.7	DeKhanik confronts the worrisome personalist innovation with classic to mystic teaching.
0:36.6	He writes, quote,
0:37.9	Others are not the reason for the proper lovableness of the common good. Rather, others are
0:44.5	lovable insofar as they can participate in the common good. The Connick is speaking here
0:51.6	specifically of the common good of the family, countering the claim
0:55.6	by some personalist writers that the goodness and dignity of individual family members
1:00.7	founds and causes the goodness and dignity of the family as a whole.
1:06.6	To the contrary, Deaconik argues, the good's causality runs in the opposite direction,
1:12.5	not from person to thing, but from thing to person.
1:17.7	It's not the goodness of individual family members that makes the family commonly good and lovable.
1:23.6	Rather, the members of a family become lovable to each other,
1:26.8	because they enjoy, even before they converse in familial ways,
1:32.1	a kind of communication with each other within the same higher and common good, in this case, the good of the family.
1:41.3	Contrary to the personalist claim that friendly relations form a family, Deconic insists
1:47.0	that a family forms friendly relations. The common good of the family provides both
1:54.0	the principle and the context of the love that develops between family members and binds
2:00.1	them together personally.
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