Primacy of Common Good

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Edited and Translated by Ralph McInerny Preface - i Ralph McInerny Preface - 3 Jean-Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, O.M.I. The Primacy of the Common Good against the Personalists (1943) - 12 The Common Good and Its Primacy Objections and Replies The Dignity of the Person and Liberty Order and Liberty Common Good and Generic Community Common Good and Beatitude Society Is an Accidental Whole The Speculative Life and Solitude The Good of Grace and the Good of the Universe Society and the Image of God Man as Whole and Society The City Is for the Sake of Man Personalism and Totalitarianism The Principle of the New Order (1943) - 47 Negation of the Primacy of the Speculative In the Beginning, the Word of Man Et facta est nox Appendices I. The Flourishing of the Person II. Every Person Desires His Good III. Nabuchodonosor, My Servant IV. Ludwig Feuerbach Interprets Saint Thomas V. The Revolt of the Philosophers of Nature On the Common Good - 102 (Review of The Primacy of the Common Good, 1944) Yves R. Simon In Defense of Jacques Maritain - 108 (Attack on The Primacy of the Common Good, 1945) Ignatius Theodore Eschmann, O.P. In Defence of St. Thomas: A Reply to Father Eschmann’s Attack on The Primacy of the Common Good, 1945 - 139 I. On “Convenient Anonymity” II. St. Thomas on Part and Whole III. A Thomistic Proof of a “Revolting” Statement IV.Why Did God Make Things Many? V. Quis ut Deus? VI. Bonum universale in essendo and bonum universale in causando VII. “The Chief ‘Personalist’ Text” VIII. Beatitude, “the” Common Good IX. “Fidelissimus discipulus ejus” X.“Unusquisque seipsum in Deum ordinat sicut pars ordinatur ad bonum commune” XI. “Civitas homini, non homo Civitati existit” XII. The Private Law of the Holy Ghost XIII. “The Term ‘Personalism’ (in Itself, No Doubt, a Bad One)” XIV. The Devil and the Common Good