The common good points toward the way in which freedom, autonomy, and self-government can be realized through the collective action and active participation of individuals, not as atomized consumers but as active citizens in the public domain of politics.
From the era of the ancient Greek city-states through contemporary political philosophy, the idea of the common good has pointed toward the possibility that certain goods, such as security and justice, can be achieved only through citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the public realm of politics and public service.
These results underscore the importance of empowerment, which allows collective actions and active participation on the part of the community in social decision making and the quest for social rights.
MoMing was a dance collective and studio active in Chicago from 1974-1990.
Both the young people and service providers agreed that for dietary health promotion efforts to succeed, social problems needed to be addressed and agency encouraged through (individual and collective) active engagement of the young people themselves.
In many countries social workers' support for the creation of loving and active collectives is far from easy, especially when the agencies they work for are often deprived of love and avoid discussion on social change.
Our library may allow for more directed inquiry into processes such as collective cell durotaxis, general mechanotaxis, and active sensing.
All of her characters find themselves tightly enmeshed in personal and collective memory, an active force that limits and often determines their actions.
But he was best known in Chicago, where in 1965 he was a founder, with the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and others, of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a collective, still active, devoted to nurturing composers and players of modern music and widely credited with establishing Chicago as a center of experimental jazz.
Successful invasion of a host is now understood to be a collective process, predicated upon microbial information sharing and active collaboration [ 1, 2].
