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Full Idea
Supporters of equality have asserted that people are alike in certain things they could do or achieve, as well as in the things that they need and could suffer.
Gist of Idea
Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs
Source
Bernard Williams (The Idea of Equality [1962], §2)
Book Ref
Williams,Bernard: 'Problems of the Self: Papers 1956-1972' [CUP 1979], p.234
3234 | Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view [Williams,B] |
3233 | Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs [Williams,B] |
3235 | It is a mark of extreme exploitation that the sufferers do not realise their plight [Williams,B] |
3236 | Equality of opportunity without equality of respect would create a very inhuman society [Williams,B] |