32 | What is Equality? Disagreeing with Jacques Rancière
What's Left of Philosophy
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Rancier, Is There a Universality of Intelligence?
The claim is right that there is equality of intelligences full stop like across the board, right? This is in fact a universal sort of claim. And at some point he's describing who is it Jean-Dérolin, this woman who runs for office in Paris or in France in like the 1840s when that's not technically legally possible for like woman to seek to hold office. And so like this exposes or demonstrates a wrong and demonstrates that the supposed universality of the self-conception of this bourgeois order of Liberté, Galité is in fact a bloated particularity masking itself as a universality. The thing that always bugs me about, bugged me
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