The distinction between internal goods and external goods is paramount. External goods are money and status. Internal goods are a sense of satisfaction, like the feeling one gets when “in the flow”…
Completely destroy the common, and the individual will fail soon after, not the other way around.
…it occurs to me that the central focus of virtue/vice and its history, are mainly concerned with individual behavior, and group accepted definitions of it. Nowhere in the conversation is there discussion of structural virtue or vice.
If we had enough covering laws for all morality questions, there would be no place left for virtue…