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Single Idea 123
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
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Full Idea
Callicles: It's because most people are second-rate that they are happy for things to be distributed equally.
Gist of Idea
Do most people like equality because they are second-rate?
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 483c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.66
The
39 ideas
with the same theme
[reaons for viewing and treating people as equals]:
123
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Do most people like equality because they are second-rate?
[Plato]
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1402
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Friendship is impossible between master and slave, even if they are made equal
[Plato]
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262
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Men and women should qualify equally for honours on merit
[Plato]
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2830
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We can claim an equal right to aristocratic virtue, as well as to wealth or freedom
[Aristotle]
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2833
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Equality is obviously there to help people who do not get priority in the constitution
[Aristotle]
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2834
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It is always the weak who want justice and equality, not the strong
[Aristotle]
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19945
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Jew and Greeks, bond and free, male and female, are all one in Christ
[Paul]
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20485
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Hobbes says people are roughly equal; Locke says there is no right to impose inequality
[Hobbes, by Wolff,J]
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2366
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There is not enough difference between people for one to claim more benefit than another
[Hobbes]
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19981
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No one even thinks of equality in monarchies and despotism; they all want superiority
[Montesquieu]
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19991
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Equality is not command by everyone or no one, but command and obedience among equals
[Montesquieu]
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19786
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Three stages of the state produce inequalities of wealth, power, and enslavement
[Rousseau]
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19800
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The social compact imposes conventional equality of rights on people who may start unequally
[Rousseau]
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22672
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It is admirable to elevate the humble to the level of the great, but the opposite is depraved
[Tocqueville]
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20486
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Only liberty, equality and sympathy can stand up to anti-social people
[Kropotkin]
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24116
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Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal
[Nietzsche]
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23161
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Slaves can be just as equal as free people
[Russell]
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24221
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Equality is the result of unlimited freedom
[Weil]
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23753
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People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged
[Weil]
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23901
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Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them
[Weil]
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23841
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By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal
[Weil]
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3233
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Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs
[Williams,B]
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3234
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Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view
[Williams,B]
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3275
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Equality was once opposed to aristocracy, but now it opposes public utility and individual rights
[Nagel]
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3277
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In judging disputes, should we use one standard, or those of each individual?
[Nagel]
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3281
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The ideal of acceptability to each individual underlies the appeal to equality
[Nagel]
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20277
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Equality of interests is a minimal principle, not implying equal treatment
[Singer]
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23257
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We can treat people as equals, or actually treat them equally
[Dworkin, by Grayling]
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18621
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Treating people as equals is the one basic value of all plausible political theories
[Dworkin, by Kymlicka]
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23106
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To rectify the undeserved equality, we should give men longer and women shorter lives
[Kekes]
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23121
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It is just a fact that some people are morally better than others
[Kekes]
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23256
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Liberty and equality cannot be reconciled
[Grayling]
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20526
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Utilitarians argue for equal distribution because of diminishing utility of repetition
[Wolff,J]
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20528
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Difference Principle: all inequalities should be in favour of the disadvantaged
[Wolff,J]
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20997
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The need for equality among people arises from impartiality and objectivity
[Sen]
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20996
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All modern theories of justice demand equality of something
[Sen]
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20550
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Opportunity should ignore extraneous factors, or foster competence, or ignore all disadvantages
[Swift]
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20587
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Most people want equality because they want a flourishing life
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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22840
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Mere equality, as in two trees being the same height, has no value at all
[Charvet]
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