The prominence of the person is the supreme values. As a person, man is above the loop state, since their purposes are higher than the state. The State and society provide the conditions for human self-realization. So the freedom of the individual is, in our culture, the priority value.In nature the construction of a democratic social order only is possible when freedom is intrinsic to all its members. Freedom can take various forms, such as those of expression of thought, creation, choice, association, business and more, always present in the various operational concepts. Equality, basic to all men, derives from the acceptance that all born equal, with the same dignity as a person, holy and inviolable, in that share the same moral and spiritual heritage.
Born free, equal in dignity and individuals, men have the right to seek, through its existence, its realization differentiated, self-non and in accordance with the standards imposed by the group.
However, conscious of his dignity and the essential insecurity of earthly existence, it is the duty of men to the fraternity, which also have to serve in our culture, as a parameter guiding the social life.
It’s to recognize the primacy of the person and the common good on the structures and social groups that seek not only overcome a purely individualistic conception of social coexistence, but also the conceptions collectivism in which, so absolute, the values of the individual values the community. So the common good has become a target - synthesis around which other significant benchmarks are articulated.
The values of the prominence of the person, individual freedom, the fundamental equality between men and Brotherhood were thus inspiring the concept of common good Thomist materializing a vision that leads to the following understanding:
The design of the common good, limited to a national society gives rise to certain obligations of its members in relation to the social body, not only embodied in the ethical and moral, but also in legal and institutional. As a result, the so-called rule of law, it declares the law and impose the mandatory requirements of the common good, which will be a leader of rights and duties of rulers and ruled.
