ABSTRACT
These afterthoughts comprise a series of loosely connected ideas related to the foregoing text but not essential to it. The achievement of liberty, freedom, trust and justice, therefore depends on the design of our social institutions—upon how "requisite" they are. Friendship relations represent the limiting case in human interaction, in that they are the most free from immediate social structure and specified requirements, although requiring a background of shared requisite values and law. Requisite Institutions are those institutions whose articulated structure and functional arrangements provide solidly regulated conditions of trust in working relationships, and hence of authority with freedom and justice. As against Anti-Requisite Institutions, whose vagaries and processes allow for interpersonal suspicion and manipulation, or call them forth. By contrast, anti-requisite institutions support the negative aspects of human nature-autocratic coercion, greed and malice, and secrecy and self-seeking— all of which are inhibitors of imagination, innovation and fulsome creative effort.
