What is the “common good”?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJan 13, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“What do you think is the common good?”

“Common good” is what is good for everyone.

Of course, it immediately raises many questions.

How can we assess, know what is good for everyone?!

After all, we do not even know what is truly good for ourselves! If we knew, we would live unhealthy lifestyles, we would not commit the same stupid mistakes again and again, we would not destroy the planet that is our “mother’s womb”, etc.

In truth, we know nothing, we have no idea what right or wrong is, healthy or unhealthy, positive or negative is. We are all locked into a dark, distorted, 100% egocentric, and subjective consciousness, perception of reality that paints a certain, personalized reality for us we try to navigate our lives in.

In order to acquire a truthful perception, understanding of reality we would need to escape our dark, introverted cocoons and attain a selfless, truly objective consciousness and perception of reality.

This is possible through a special, purposeful, and practical method that can teach us how to sense, understand, perceive reality through the desires, needs, and viewpoints of other people in uniquely organized and conducted, small environments where everybody tries to achieve the same thing.

This way we can escape our subjective, egocentric prisons, we can learn and accept what good is for others. Through such unique, selfless, mutual integration we could also achieve similarity with nature’s integral, altruistic system.

As a result, we would finally understand who we are in the system,m what our actual role, purpose is in nature through humanity. By fully understanding Nature and our role in it we will finally also understand our true Natural necessities, the available resources, and this way we can find the way towards general balance and homeostasis, becoming Nature’s partners in achieving “common good”.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.