Full Idea
I wonder whether the practice of justice may not absolutely require a certain recognition of equality between human beings, not a pretence of the equality of talents, but something deeper.
Gist of Idea
The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality
Source
Philippa Foot (Nietzsche's Immoralism [1991], p.152)
Book Reference
Foot,Philippa: 'Moral Dilemmas' [OUP 2002], p.152
A Reaction
{My 'something deeper' is expressed by Foot in a quotation from Gertrude Stein]. This may well be the most fundamental division which runs across a society - between those who accept and those reject human equality.