The liberal movement in Vienna had started around the celebration of German cultural heroes such as Goethe or Schiller. Communities can never be sustained without a shared identity and shared symbols.#
As Hayek stresses time and time again, his concept of freedom defends the individual from the arbitrary will of others, but it does not defends him from the impersonal forces of the market, social norms, a governing morality, or the acceptance of not fully understood and hence incompletely justified norms.#
The constitution is not a procedural prescription; it is a living and continued moral commitment to certain norms and values. Upholding it, cultivating it, therefore requires continued active support by the members of society.#
Civilization is always concerned with practices, how things are done: with greater or less foresight, with more or less specialization, with manners or without, with more or less technical sophistication.#