Ham: If wiki is unsuitable how about the stanford encyclopedia of philosphy?
Egalitarianism is a contested concept in social and political thought. One might care about human equality in many ways, for many reasons. As currently used, the label "egalitarian" does not necessarily indicate that the doctrine so called holds that it is desirable that people's condition be made the same in any respect or that people ought to be treated the same in any respect. An egalitarian might rather be one who maintains that people ought to be treated as equals--as possessing equal fundamental worth and dignity and as equally morally considerable. In this sense, a sample nonegalitarian would be one who believes that people born into a higher social caste, or a favored race or ethnicity, or with an above-average stock of traits deemed desirable, ought somehow to count for more than others in calculations that determine what morally ought to be done. (On the thought that the core egalitarian ideal is treating people as equals, see Dworkin 2000.) Further norms of equality of condition or treatment might be viewed as free-standing or derived from the claim of equality of status. Controversy also swirls around attempts to specify the class of human persons to whom egalitarian norms apply. Some might count an unborn fetus or a very severely demented human as persons; others disagree. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/ ________________________________ From: X Acto <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:23:37 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Multiculturalism scam Ham: The alternative is turning out human beings in the same mold, with no differences, no original ideas, no unique aptitudes or personalities, no powers of discrimination. That's the dull, gray world of egalitarianism where nothing and no one is better or worse than anything or anyone else. Go find it, if you can. I choose to stay here where I can value Difference. Ron: Doesent this go against your thesis? that each individual has unique agency? therefore what you fear can not exist by virtue of Essentialism correct? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
