Day 227: When is something Equal and Unequal? – Equality and Human Rights – Part 6

Continuing from: Day 219: Equality and Human Rights Day 221: Are Humans Equal? – Equality and Human Rights – Part 2 Day 223: Equality of Opportunity: Introduction – Equality and Human Rights – Part 3 Day 225: Equality and Disinformation – Equality and Human Rights – Part 5 In the previous blog we discussed the problems that ensue when a word has not been clearly defined, and how one ought to agree upon a singular definition and thus use a particular...

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Day 226: Deserving Life or Death - Social Justice and Human Rights - Part 5

This blog-post is a continuation to:Day 118: Justice and Human RightsDay 220: Justice and Human Rights - Part 2Day 222: Justice and Human Rights - Part 3Day 224: Justice and Human Rights - Part 4 - Social Justice: Merits and DesertsIn the Previous blog-post we discussed the Principle of Merits and Deserts as a basis for just distribution of resources. It became clear that to distribute goods and services based on 'who deserves them' is a more complicated...

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Day 225: Equality and Disinformation - Equality and Human Rights – Part 4

Continuing from: Day 219: Equality and Human Rights Day 221: Are Humans Equal? – Equality and Human Rights – Part 2 Day 223: Equality of Opportunity: Introduction – Equality and Human Rights – Part 3 In the previous blog we looked at opposing views in relation to Equality of Opportunity. The one view was ‘merit’ based – promoting the idea that equality of opportunity consists of each one’s success/achievement being dependent on skill, talent and...

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Day 224: Justice and Human Rights - Part 4 - Social Justice: Merits and Deserts

When Aristotle discussed the concept of Justice - he spoke of remedial or corrective justice, which specified how to punish offenders of the law, but he also spoke of distributive justice, where he asked how much each one should get of what, or: how should resources be justly distributed? Aristotle's concept of distributive justice is what is currently known under the term 'social justice'. It is thus not a 'new' concept, but one that has been...

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Day 223: Equality of Opportunity: Introduction – Equality and Human Rights – Part 3

Continuing from: Day 219: Equality and Human Rights Day 221: Are Humans Equal? – Equality and Human Rights – Part 2 Within this blog we will be looking at some of the interpretations of the concept ‘Equality of Opportunity’. The views on Equality of Opportunity can be broadly split up in two perspectives, one which is considered an ‘egalitarian’ view and looks at Equality of Opportunity as Equality of Starting Point – and another which is connected...

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