The good of the person, the common good and conscientious objection

Abstract

Three themes occupy the space of this presentation. The first two deal with the same problem, but from a different angle. The relationship between the personal good and the common good can in fact be the subject of at least two different discourses, that of ethics - and that of law. In addition, it may seem strange to link these two themes to a third, reserved for conscientious objection. However, this is valid in that it constitutes, at the level of citizenship, a socio-political form of tension between a personal and a common good, of a social or political nature. In this way, ethics, law and political citizenship interfere when we want to open the process of relations between the personal good and the common good. The treatment of pandemic problems has not always escaped such thorny issues.