1101GIR Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Two Ronnies, 2000 Today, Meritocracy
4 May 2018
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L3. Equality
Equality
• Concepts are fundamental to equality and understanding the differences between them is key
• Equality of opportunity
• Western, fair competition, fair go, equal starting point, treating people the same
as a justification of inequality
• Equality of outcome
• Increasingly hard to sustain with the collapse of communism, about different
people arriving at a rough equality, treating people differently to ensure equality
• Concept of human equality is a human creation, which isn't found in the natural world, but
only where created and sustained by humans
Inequality: The Stand-Out Feature of Our World
• 'The Two Ronnies: 2000 Today': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSahEDRjvw
• 'Wealth Inequality in America': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTj9AcwkaKM
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Document Summary
Equality: concepts are fundamental to equality and understanding the differences between them is key, equality of opportunity, western, fair competition, fair go, equal starting point, treating people the same as a justification of inequality, equality of outcome. "wealth inequality in america": https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=jtj9acwkakm: equality of opportunity does not provide equality of outcome, equality may derive from empathy, human instinct to feel empathy for other people. History of equality: points of emergence of modern ideas about human. Equality: diogenes, turkish exile living in athens, being an exile was considered worse than death, because you would lose your place in the world but continue to live there. Lived naked in a barrel: questioned the difference between the rich and the poor and determined that citizenship is ultimately nothing. Idea that nothing divides us from each other. Says that everything that divides us is nothing: announces equality through shock value.
