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needs, the Collaborative Tradition seeks to create more enabling conditions for
human development and expression.
Using this idea of development in a large- frame dialectical lens, the
Constitutional and Discretionary Traditions stand in dialectical tension with
one another (thesis/ antithesis). e eld is seeking some form of transcendent
synthesis of these two Traditions through the emerging Collaborative Tradition.
Specically, the Discretionary Tradition’s Master role is an antithetical response to
the Constitutional Tradition’s Servant role thesis, while the Collaborative Tradition
seeks to transcend both through a Co- Creator role—it is neit