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Full Idea
A highly rational, efficient and unmitigated application of the idea of equality of opportunity, while abandoning the idea of equality of respect as vague and nostalgic, would lead to a quite inhuman society.
Gist of Idea
Equality of opportunity without equality of respect would create a very inhuman society
Source
Bernard Williams (The Idea of Equality [1962], §3)
Book Ref
Williams,Bernard: 'Problems of the Self: Papers 1956-1972' [CUP 1979], p.248
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] |