Banality of the common good – hermeneutical study

Article is an attempt for the creation a new way of thinking about the common good, which is possible to realize in practice (particularly in view of depleting natural resources). Firstly, author defines terms such as: the good, the community , the common good, indicating a tendency to bipolar thinking about these ideas: relativist and absolutist. The second part consist analysis of these ideas from the one perspective – hermeneutics. In this part „banality” is not a „name” for common good. It is a „name” for the way of thinking (bipolar). In the third thematic sequence, author explain the new way of thinking. From now we have formal and material good defined in political sphere rather than ethics.

The Role of the Captain General in the Political System of Spain in the Past and Present

This article is an answer to the question where the rank of the Captain General in the title of the king of Spain came from. Reaching back to the pre-constitutional times, the role of the Captain General in the political system of Spain was defined. Originally he acted as the supreme military commander, with time gaining competences in the field of politics, judiciary and treasury. The essence of the post functions is evidenced by the creation of separate territorial administrative entities – captaincy general. The apogee of the Captain-General’s importance in Spain took place in the 18th century, when with the arrival of Philip V of Anjou at the Iberian Peninsula, the system of Bourbon absolutism began to be implemented in Spain under the Nueva Planta reforms. In the constitutional era, the post was once again reduced to strictly military matters, however traditionally appearing in the royal titulature.