The third reason for being concerned about the core practice is also to do with internal goods, but in this case it is the internal good of the ‘perfection’ of the practitioners in the process. As we saw in Chapter 4, a fundamental part of the common good is having virtuous individuals making good decisions and carrying out good actions on behalf of themselves, their families, and the various organizations which make up a community, including the political organizations of government. And the organizations in which we work, and the practices in which we thereby take part, have an important
...more
