Glossary · Term
Authority
Moral strength grounded in truth; it should not be confused with authoritarianism. A person's authority is shown by example, because they know how to achieve results.
In the Foundation's Topics
From this point on, the relationship with parents should be based on friendship, not on authority or authoritarianism, understanding friendship as a relationship of trust and loving communication.
Thus, it is important that the Teacher never lose authority, understood as knowing how to teach and knowing what is being taught.
From an individual perspective, we recognize this Law at work through pain, suffering, anguish, and physical and mental illnesses; socially, it is recognized in “social ills”: poverty, insecurity, abuse of authority, sexual assault, theft, and, in general, everything related to corruption.