“Every craft and every investigation, and likewise
every action and decision, seems to aim at some
good; hence, the good has been well described as
that at which everything aims.”

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To be worthy of being qualified by the predicate “good”, the person, action, or item must successfully attain the end towards which their proper nature directs them.

For St. Thomas Aquinas, to be “Good” is to be more fully what one is meant to be. The Common Good is a universal and superabundant “Good” which serves as the ultimate goal of the striving of all beings. It is the Goal of all beings.
It is the GOAL OF ALL ACTION.

What is this “Good” which is the ultimate goal of all action and striving? GOD IS THE COMMON GOOD OF ALL CREATED BEING, GOD AS FINAL CAUSE, GOD AS HE WHO DRAWS ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF. It is by participating in the goodness of He Who Is Goodness Itself, that beings have whatever goodness
they do have.

We need to think philosophically, politically, socially and economically as to what is intrinsically good. Actions must be ordained to the true and natural and supernatural end of man. Society must make an honorable place for workers in the economic system, for families, for children born and unborn. We must not be afraid to use our imagination, guided by faith and reason, to determine how to live and act to achieve the Good and our Ultimate Goal.