Bruce Robbins, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare StateUpward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State. Bruce Robbins . Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+304.

2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. E204-E209
Author(s):  
John Brenkman
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Welfare State

scholarly journals Thomas Aquinas’ influences inInfanteD. Pedro’ “Virtuosa Benfeitoria”: Scholastic tradition in History and History of Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Terezinha Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Social Project ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The considerations on the book “VirtuosaBenfeitoria” aim atevaluating the relevance of a social project to guide the actions of the ruler and theindividuals, with a view to practical actions that converge to the common good. The infant D. Pedro, also known as the Duke of Coimbra, wrote the work. The central focus of the book is to address the sense of improvement and how the prince should practice and bestow it and how the subjects would receive and practice it. The arguments of D. Pedro to deal with the good and the society are strongly influenced by classical authorities and authors of scholasticism, especially Thomas Aquinas. In this sense, on the one hand our study seeks to show that such knowledge was essential for him to understand the plots that build human relationships, whose premises, to him, should be the ones leading society towards the common good;on the other hand, the goal is to analyze the work we regard as essential theoretical and methodological principles of history that allow us to recover, through memory, historical events that potentially guide us through paths that show the relevance of the Master of the University, as a vector in the organization of a given society. 

The Positive State

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Judith N. Shklar
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
The Common ◽  
Positive State ◽  
The Way

In this chapter Shklar identifies the problems that arise with the development of industrial capitalism. She traces the emergence of social obligations to fellow citizens and the new concerns this raised, paying particular attention to the way the English idealist T.H. Green addressed these issues. She discusses the thinking behind the new welfare state and the rising popularity of social norms and obligations, often also expressed in terms of “the common good,” “positive rights,” and “the obligation to be just.”

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2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-101
Author(s):  
Matthew Neufeld ◽  
Sean Greenwood ◽  
Gary Farnell ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Mark Bayer ◽  
...  
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Literary History ◽  
Common Good ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
Complex Words
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