[September 2000 journal entry]
Variations to add to the ‘non-religious’ four-tier approach to ‘community’ I take: (1) in the ultimate and most radical experience of ‘community’ (i.e., initiating/demonstrating respect toward strangers and adversaries), strangers and adversaries who remain distant should be distinguished from those who respond favorably to the unconditional gestures of respect, (2) among the individuals found to be extending unconditional gestures of respect toward strangers and adversaries, those who choose to be near strangers and adversaries should be distinguished from those who had no such choice.
