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Single Idea 3234

[from 'The Idea of Equality' by Bernard Williams, in 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality ]

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 Reference

Williams,Bernard: 'Problems of the Self: Papers 1956-1972' [CUP 1979], p.236