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8. But at least some rough notion of the proper limits of any kind of authority is part of understanding the reasons or the rules that justify it in the context of the activity or the institution with which the authority is associated.

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9. Even an authority which is justified in principle, however, may be abused or exceeded in fact, with the result that "an authority may hinder the pursuit of the very objectives on which its justification rests" (107).

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11. But it is not appropriate to rail indiscriminately against authority, since it is not only various but also ubiquitous and indispensable to so many human activities that are themselves indispensable.4/17/1
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