On Being Unfair to Rawls, Rousseau and Williams or John Charvet and the Incoherence of Inequality

M. P. Masterson

British Journal of Political Science, 1971, vol. 1, issue 2, 209-222

Abstract: John Charvet, in a recent article, charges various ‘attempts to make of equality a substantive principle of society’ with being ‘incoherent and self contradictory’ (p. 13). The unifying theme of Charvet's article is that certain contenders for equality do so in a manner that logically presupposes the assuming away of those elements of social life which entitle us to talk about individuals as ‘human beings at all, i.e. as beings possessing the attributes of humanity’ (p. 2). I wish to show how little justified these charges are.

Date: 1971
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