POLS10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Equality Of Outcome, Civil Society, Urs
4 Aug 2018
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Modern equality is associated with the thought that we should be equal on some level. Legal equality, treated the same under rules. We are fundamentally equal as humans, equal freedom to act. By definition: by virtue of their common humanity each person is entitled to be treated equally by rules of social practice. Fixated under circumstances and conditions under which people live. Completely unconcerned with natural inequalities (that some might be smarter than others, etc. ) Our outcomes would end up similar or equal in a way. Most common in idea of material equality. Rousseau: no citizen shall be rich enough to buy another and none so poor as to be forced to sell himself . Critics: economic costs, moral costs, political costs. Hobbes: natural equality, physically equal in the broadest sense, we fear other people because we are relatively equal, ignores civil equality. Locke: life, liberty, and property" equal moral individuals.
