Political Science 1020E Lecture 8: Political Science 1020E Oct 6
7 Dec 2015
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Equality is a more controversial value than justice or liberty. Some claim that equality expresses envy, promotes a culture o dependency, and overrides individual responsibility. Equality is a comparative concept, but comparisons are relatively. What matters is (i) sufficiency, or (ii) meeting needs, or (iii) What matters is that every one has enough, not that everyone. But you can be against equality" while being for redistributive unimportant concern for the least advantaged has the same taxation". We are unequal in many ways: intelligence, social and family background, sex, race, age, religion. Almost everyone believes in equality in some sense. All citizens should be treated as equals: everyone is entitles to. But there is disagreement about what counts as treating people equal concern and respect as equals. Equality as a distributive ideal: focus on who has how much. Treatment as an equal: ensuring equal citizenship status for all. Relational equality: people should relate to each other as equals.
