Authority

John Patrick Diggins on Max Weber’s struggle to imagine social order without authority

Sociologist Richard Stivers explains the confused understanding in modern culture about equality, individualism, and authority. (16 minutes)

Writing in the mid-1990s, Alan Ehrenhalt reflects on the relationship between authority and community

Victor Lee Austin: “All authority comes from God and no thing, no being, no realm is outside his dominion.”

Alan Ehrenhalt argues that real community can only be sustained when three things are assumed: the goodness of limits, the necessity of authority, and the reality of personal sin. (13 minutes)

Oliver O’Donovan on how authority and language connect us with reality and thus sustain community

Hannah Arendt on the place of authority and tradition in education

Richard M. Weaver on the ends of education

Oliver O’Donovan on the freedom of living under authority

Philip Turner on viewing authority as mere conflict management

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