Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by John Rawls

Author:John Rawls [Rawls, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, Political, History & Surveys, Modern, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674042568
Google: yKclZky1oUkC
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30T04:03:27+00:00

3. Is this view of equality distinctive of Rousseau? Was he the first to see it? I am not sure of the answer to this question. Ideas of equality have been around from the beginning of political philosophy. But I suspect that the family of ideas that combine to give his idea of equality—the idea of equality at the highest level in how society is conceived, of citizens as equals at this highest level in virtue of their fundamental interests and their capacities for both moral and civil freedom, of self-love and its connection with the inequalities connected with arbitrary power—are, as a family, distinctive. That is, it is in combining this family of ideas in this particular and powerful way that the originality of Rousseau’s idea of equality may lie.

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