In Carina Fourie, Fabian Schuppert & Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (eds.),
Social Equality: On What It Means to Be Equals. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1-20 (
2015)
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Abstract
This chapter serves as an introduction to the collected volume. In the first section, we aim to provide background on important themes in social egalitarianism and to set the context for understanding which significant questions the chapters in this book pose and attempt to answer. In this section we focus especially on what could be said to characterize socially egalitarian relationships, on which relationships are of concern, and on what might make social egalitarianism distinct. In the second section, we provide a brief explanation of the structure of the book and each of its chapters