\u201cFinally, I cannot but speak of the serious risks associated with the invasion, at high levels of culture and education in both universities and in schools, of positions of libertarian individualism. A common feature of this fallacious paradigm is that it minimizes the common good, that is, \u2018living well,\u2019 a \u2018good life\u2019 in the community framework, and exalts the selfish ideal that deceptively proposes a \u2018beautiful life.\u2019 If individualism affirms that it is only the individual who gives value to things and interpersonal relationships, and so it is only the individual who decides what is good and what is bad, then libertarianism, today in fashion, preaches that to establish freedom and individual responsibility, it is necessary to resort to the idea of \u2018self-causation.\u2019 Thus libertarian individualism denies the validity of the common good because on the one hand it supposes that the very idea of \u2018common\u2019 implies the constriction of at least some individuals, and the other that the notion of \u2018good\u2019 deprives freedom of its essence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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