The Juridical Domain of the Intrinsic Common Good of the Political Community: Hervadian Perspectives

Abstract

This paper explores the contribution of Javier Hervada to the correct understanding of the juridical domain of the intrinsic common good of the political community. After some introductory remarks on the current status of the intrinsic political common good, in the first part of the article the concept of the intrinsic aspect of the political common good is presented from the viewpoint of the Thomistic social ontology and Catholic social doctrine. In the second part of the article, some crucial Hervadian perspectives are elaborated for the conception of the juridicity of the intrinsic bonum commune of the polity.