The Person and the Common Good
The Person and the Common Good
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人与共同利益
DOI：
10.1017/s0034670500045101
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发表时间：
1946
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通讯作者：
J. Fitzgerald
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作者：
Jacques Maritain;J. Fitzgerald
在当代思想特别需要的真理中，它可以从中获得巨大的利润，是个性和人格之间的区别的学说。这种区别的根本重要性是揭示在原则的圣托马斯。不幸的是，对它的正确理解是很难实现的，需要一种形而上学的洞察力，而当代人的头脑很难习惯这种洞察力。是社会为我们每个人而存在，还是我们每个人为社会而存在？教区是为教区居民而存在，还是教区居民为教区而死？这个问题，我们立即感到，涉及两个方面，在每一个方面都必须有一些真理的成分。单方面的回答只会使我们陷入错误。因此，我们必须脱离一个真正全面的答案的形式原则，并描述它所暗示的价值的精确层次。
Among the truths of which contemporary thought stands in particular need and from which it could draw substantial profiit, is the doctrine of the distinction between individuality and personality. The essential importance of this distinction is revealed in the principles of St. Thomas. Unfortunately, a right understanding of it is difficult to achieve and requires an exercise of metaphysical insight to which the contemporary mind is hardly accustomed. Does society exist for each one of us, or does each one of us exist for society? Does the parish exist for the parishioner or die parishioner for the parish? This question, we feel immediately, involves two aspects, in each of which there must be some element of truth. A unilateral answer would only plunge us into error. Hence, we must disengage the formal principles of a truly comprehensive answer and describe the precise hierarchies of values which it implies.