Week 46: Equality
Negotiations and Other Interactions
The title of this topic comes from Paul Simon's song "Train in the Distance", wherein Simon writes "negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one and the same." The idealized version of ... Read More about Negotiations and Other Interactions
Freedom of Expression
The right to speak freely and to be heard is an indispensable part of equality. Equally indispensable is the community's receptiveness to ideas: its willingness to listen and hear. This is a daunting ... Read More about Freedom of Expression
Temperance – Balance – Symmetry – Proportion
No one can do the same thing at all times, and be healthy. Not just in politics but in life, proportion is an important value. It is related to judgment, which is a component of ... Read More about Temperance – Balance – Symmetry – Proportion
Political Equality
People have always schemed to gain political advantage over others. In the long age of kings, political equality was not even discussed but since democracy began to emerge in the late eighteenth ... Read More about Political Equality
Equal Rights and Protection of Law
Because laws are necessary, so too are moral principles for the laws. . . . in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. ... Read More about Equal Rights and Protection of Law
Equal Opportunity – Opportunity In Fact – Economic Justice
In a world of limits, in which everyone seeks his own welfare, an equal chance for everyone is an essential part of justice. It must be a real and practical chance, not merely a theoretical chance ... Read More about Equal Opportunity – Opportunity In Fact – Economic Justice
Equality
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. . . . Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. [Fyodor Dostoevsky, ... Read More about Equality