Common Good
A political framework for human flourishing
beyond the left right divide
A modern moral philosophy, governance theory,
and political–economic framework focused on
maximising human well-being in the 21st century.
The Common Good is a new governance theory that stands opposed to both the right wing neoliberal agenda and the left's antidote in Marxism. Rather than imagining that the solutions to our social, political and economic problems rely on finding a sweet spot on a spectrum between these two flawed and failing ideologies, the Common Good sets out a framework for defining and measuring what the maximisation of societal wellbeing looks like.
From an idea grounded in moral philosophy, this book goes on to propose how we can restructure our political institutions to better achieve desired social outcomes for the taxation we pay into them. It also presents a new economic model that could reverse our current deepening debt crisis and build a more resilient national infrastructure.
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INDEX
An Introduction To Political Humansim
Chapter 1 Democratic Reform
Evolving Our Democracy
Chapter 2 Constitutional Reform
A Very British Constitution
Chapter 3 Executive Reform
Compassion By Design
Chapter 4 Regulatory Reform
Authority Without Accountability is Tyranny
Chapter 5 Tax System Reform
Assigned Taxation: Efficiency, Equilibrium And
The Moral Imperative
Chapter 6 Money Reform
Sovereign Money: Collective Sustainable Economics
Chapter 7 Economic Reform
#PopCapitalism
Chapter 8 Justice Reform
Justice by the principles of cause and effect
Chapter 9 Health Reform
National Health And Well-Being
Chapter 10 Education Reform
Individual & Societal Progressiveness
Chapter 11 Anthropocene Reform
Learning To Live Symbiotically
Chapter 12 Global Relations
The Oneness Of Humanity
Appendix 1 - A Very British Constitution
Appendix 2 - The Citizoid App
The Political Philosophy
Political Humansim is founded on the study of the human condition and the individual's relationship to the society around them, how this relationship has developed over the course of human history and even looking at ourselves as a pack mammalian specie. As we have collectivised into societies we have manifested consistent ideas and institutions in order to best organise a general increase in human well-being.
I have drawn up 12 distinct parameters for how we may precisely measure Human-Wellbeing, it becomes a formula - HWix12. When you look at politics from the perspective of Political Humanism and specifically HWix12 it becomes very clear just where we need to concentrate our resources, what our arguments and discussions should be there to achieve and how we can best organise ourselves to around our collective societal aims. The political process then becomes more of a collaborative effort that a collision of ideas once we can find agreement with our shared societal aims and also agendas that do not lead to a general rise in well-being have to be exposed and abandoned as inefficiencies and corruptions of the process.
