What is the Common Good - a list of goods and services to be handed out by the state? or a metaphysical final cause that guides moral action?Episode 89: God, Man and Markets #4, the Ideas of Ivan Illich with Charlie Deist, David Clayton, Michel Accad, Fr Brad Elliot.
In the last chapter of the book, Illich offers an apocalyptic view of industrial societies and the forced segregations that have been imposed on families and on people for the sake of efficiency. Is his a Marxian critique of capitalism or does he offer a third way that even supporters of the free market should give heed to?
