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Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There a Freedom in the Absence of Equality?
The declaration has oft been read as an argument for freedom over equality. But in your view, its fundamental point is that there is no freedom in the absence of equality. Can you talk about how one of those views came to predominate over the other? Sure. In the eighteenth century, when people thought aboutslf self government, they often described it as a project of free and equal, self governing citizens. That phrase, free and equal went always together. So with the nineteenth century, early twentieth century, you began to have a sort of re fashioning of the concept of equality,. primarily around economic concerns and conceptions.
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