PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Auctoritas
28 Oct 2020
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It means the same in status, rights and responsibilities for all members of a given group, community, society, country, nation or an empire. Plato considered the ends of the justice to be best served recognising and exploiting human beings inequalities. Aristotle remarked that injustice arises as much as from treating the unequal"s equal as from treating the equals unequal. The christian view holds that all human beings are equal in the sight of god, this is called ontological equality. Nietzsche took a contrary view stating that the promotion of equality led to mediocrity and to the discouragement of effort and excellence. That all men are equal is clearly not true. Every single person as an individual; natural differences such as height, colour, sex and weight, strength, intelligence apply (physiological differences). There are also social differences, rank, religion, citizenship and power. Human beings in the descriptive sense are not equal.
