Will, Utilitarianism, Common Good

Berkeley's divergence from Locke's Epistemological theory has potential implications for the latter's Political Philosophy that have seemingly rarely been explored. For, Phenomenalism, by conceiving externality as irreal, completely privatizes Experience, thereby rendering as specious any concept of Commonality that Lockeian Democracy entails. Similarly, Utilitarianism privatizes the Good--evaluations are all private feelings, of which the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number' is an aggregate. In other words, Mill, like Berkeley, recognizes no Common Good, nor can he. For, the recognition of Commonality requires Will, i. e. the principle of self-exteriorization, which, as the moment of the origination of action, has no value in a teleological doctrine such as Utilitarianism.