egalitarianism

egalitarian | American Dictionary

egalitarian
adjective
us/ɪˌɡæl·əˈter·i·ən/
based on the idea that people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities:
an egalitarian society

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Most contemporary egalitarians believe that inequality is bad only when the worse off are worse off through no fault of their own.
Most agency-independent egalitarians will think that he has an equality-based reason to help in both of the cases.
What should maximin egalitarians think about seniority privileges?
Whereas this argument was initially put forward by libertarians, egalitarians soon acknowledged its power and began to incorporate it into their own theories.
Liberal egalitarians object to strict egalitarianism because they believe that fairness requires that people should be held responsible for their choices.
On the priority view, we might reach much the same all-thingsconsidered judgements as moderate egalitarians; but we avoid the levelling down objection.
Where does this leave the debate between prioritarians and egalitarians?
To be part of such communities, then, would just be unfortunate for egalitarians.
Many egalitarians believe that social inequalities are worse than natural ones.
Additive aggregation is advocated by utilitarians and prioritarians, while equality-aggregation is favoured by strict egalitarians.
As a matter of fact, it seems as though many egalitarians, who have considered them, have rejected them.
Although egalitarians agree that utilitarianism is flawed, they disagree about what is valuable about equality and, hence, in their diagnoses of where utilitarianism goes wrong.
In such a society, maximin egalitarians might well oppose the prohibition of seniority privileges by the state.
Cases of levelling down suggest that the concerns that motivate us to be egalitarians may not be properly captured by egalitarianism.
Though it is by no means logically required, we conjecture that most egalitarians would consider such a measure to be a bad bet.
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