The question how the individual and the common good are interrelated (human rights being central for both) lies at the core of Western political thought. Patrick J. Deneen's (revolutionary) common good conservativism argues for discarding Enlightenment individualism, pleading for a pre-modern, anti-liberal approach to overcome a weak spot in political liberalism which sees the "common good" as the mechanically produced sum of individual well-being. It thus undervalues the central question of political life: How to create a common world good for all? In this contribution I will argue based on Hannah Arendt and on the basis of Catholic Social Thought that under modern democratic conditions the notion of the common good needs to be redefined as plural (global, national, group centered), procedural and actor oriented taking into account the contingency of human life and affairs.