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Adams asserts that "[n]o one simply as a human being has authority over another. It is always with respect to some special office or position that one holds [sc. that one has authority]" (6). But, then, subsequently, he says that "[t]o be a man . . . is, as it were, to have an office, a position, defined by the imperative to live so that one would stand justified under rational criticism"; and in this connection, he speaks of man's "office as a human being" (14).

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