The Greeks recognised that rhetoric didnt need a moral rudder to be presuasive which is why Aristotle came up with the Philosopher King - a moral, learned individual able to rule in the public good.
It is probably also why liberalism's utilitarianism tries to temper it with morality and personal responsibility. That is where the social good comes in.
'Sworn to no party, and of no sect am I.' Frederick Vosper's republican motto.
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