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
Funny how we often think about such words in isolation of each other, even in contraction or competition with each other.
I like how Hauerwas puts them, as partners with each other.
