2016-07-27
Authority is not only compatible with freedom, but it requires it, since the continued existence and excellence of the community is possible only by forming and perfecting new members. Yet freedom is not an end in itself, but the necessary condition for a community to come to a more truthful understanding or itself and the world.

- Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character

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