The Individual Good Not The Common Good

The Individual Good not the Common Good In The Treatise on Law, by Thomas Aquinas, at Question 90, Article 3, Thomas Aquinas argues that the end of Law is the Common Good. He goes on to define the Common Good as the will of the people or as the will of a political person who represents the people.

In defining the Common Good this way Thomas Aquinas is mistaken. The

Common Good is not some sort of Conventional or Political consensus, instead the Common Good is the Aggregate or Sum of the Individual Good found throughout society. Now, the Individual Good is the basis for society and the Common Good. The Individual Good is described in a scale values based upon Individual Autonomy, Individual Rational Self Interest, Individual Self Actualization, and Individual Self Transcendence.

For most people, as matter of Individual Self Transcendence, one’s

Final End is God or Being.