“[S]ociety can best be understood as an extended argument, since living traditions presuppose rival interpretations. Good societies enable the argument to continue so that the possibilities and limits of a tradition will stop its growth and in reaction some may deny the necessity of tradition for their lives. The truthfulness of a tradition is tested in its ability to form people who are ready to put the tradition into question, or at least to recognize when it is being put into question by a rival tradition. Of course…some traditions lapse into complete incoherence and can be recovered only by revolutionary reconstitution.”
–Stanley Hauerwas, CC, 14
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