 Green was right to find his views anticipated in the Greeks. He saw, as Aristotle did, that living well requires the exercise of one’s developed rational powers, and that persons who have realized their powers and have formed virtuous traits of character aim at the common good, which is a part of their own good. Like Aristotle, Green thought that such development required that one be a participant in a special kind of political community – one “where the free combination of mutually respecting citizens” enact equal law and the common good (1969, 263). 