ABSTRACT
In virtually all cultures today, the common good, however it is perceived, is variously besieged by global factors such as transnational capitalism, transcultural migration, internet anarchy, and addiction to ‘the daily news.’ 1 Regional communities are losing focus, while widening religious differences challenge our identities at a basic level, tempting many people to retreat into defensive and in some cases seditious value-enclaves. Meanwhile, in an effort to compensate for a decaying moral consensus, politicians fall back increasingly on the legal regulation of behaviour, but things continue to fall apart.
