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Full Idea
Equality seems to require that each person is owed an effort at identification; they should not be seen as a surface to which a label can be applied, but one should try to see the world (including the label) from their point of view.
Gist of Idea
Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view
Source
Bernard Williams (The Idea of Equality [1962], §2)
Book Ref
Williams,Bernard: 'Problems of the Self: Papers 1956-1972' [CUP 1979], p.236
| 3235 | It is a mark of extreme exploitation that the sufferers do not realise their plight [Williams,B] |
| 3233 | Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs [Williams,B] |
| 3234 | Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view [Williams,B] |
| 3236 | Equality of opportunity without equality of respect would create a very inhuman society [Williams,B] |