The Balancing Act Between The Individual Interest And The Common Good

The correct relationship between personal interests and common interests is a delicate balanced act that political philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Sophocles are trying to define. For philosophers like Socrates and Plato, common interests outweigh personal interests as these benefits prevent them from thinking it is correct for society as a whole. For other people like Aristotle and Rock, the consensus on common interests must be established within the reality of the existence of personal interests; it is for the benefit of society to bring them all perfectly It can not be abandoned.

"One of the situations of shared resource systems is that individual users act independently according to their own interests and consume or destroy resources through collective actions, which violates the common interests of all users "Personal users" are pushing notifications based on their interests and developing applications that compromise the possibility of "public" such as the environment's home screen, notifications, and the status of the application, which is not the user's device It is a person.

In our own life, there is always a tension between common interests, individual rights, and personal dignity. I think that the solution is not to deny part of the tension, but to balance common interests and individuals in a responsible way. Of course, if egoism and greed treats itself as individual freedom, I think that my behavior is irresponsible. If an individual is focusing on a group, I do not think that is responsible. If people observe this problem in a wider world view, we may conclude that in the United States we are mainly from the standpoint of individualism. However, no matter what we analyze, we need to balance personal freedom and common interests.