Common Good
Seek what benefits everyone, not just efficiency or individual advantage.
"The common good consists in the sum total of social conditions which allow people to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily."
— Magnifica Humanitas, 59-64
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From the Encyclical
Seek what benefits everyone, not just efficiency or individual advantage. The whole is greater than the sum of individual interests.
Use in Your Compass
Include this principle as one of your family's guiding principles.
Create Compass →Related principles
Universal Destination of Goods
Digital goods - algorithms, data, platforms - are meant for all.
MH 65-67
Subsidiarity
Decisions at the closest level possible; empower families to decide.
MH 68-72
Solidarity
We are interconnected; the future of each is tied to the future of all.
MH 73-76
Social Justice
Begin with the least among us; oppose structures of exclusion.
MH 77-81
Integral Human Development
Growth in all dimensions: spiritual, cultural, moral, relational.
MH 82-85
Dignity of Work
Work is essential to human dignity — automation and AI must serve workers, not the reverse.
MH 148-156
Truth
Truth is a common good, not the property of those with power.
MH 132-138