ABSTRACT
Social Balance. There is always potential conflict. The wavering, however, between a self-will, which makes for conflict, and a consciousness of dependence and of interdependence, which makes for corporate action, tends to come to rest in an equilibrium between the centrifugal and the centripetal forces. Such a balance of exchange is struck between the individual demands for freedom and the demands of authority for the performance of duty, that the individual is satisfied for the time being with his bargain of liberty under law, while other individuals in relation to him are satisfied with the guarantees that they have against his aggre~sive or inconvenient actions. The Kantian desideratum is satisfied of conditions under which the free vlill of one man can be united with the free will of another, in accordance with a general law of freedom.I
