tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post6464097965571313721..comments2023-10-03T19:47:34.084+11:00Comments on Dialectic: Questions on InequalityEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986439579966977930noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-42280269400889968142007-07-13T23:58:00.000+10:002007-07-13T23:58:00.000+10:00For equality to work, there must be inequitable tr...For equality to work, there must be inequitable treatment to make all things even, as I doubt some one in a wheel chair has the same requirements as myself to have the feel that things are equitable. This is not saying much other than reaffirming Sam's comment.<BR/><BR/>For Foucault's violent history to work, there must be conflict and that conflict is inequality. I guess thats just the Hegelian Captain Kickarsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761360601256251604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-53001922528406238092007-07-13T20:18:00.000+10:002007-07-13T20:18:00.000+10:00Quantifiability is an aspect that hadn't occurred ...Quantifiability is an aspect that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for giving me something else to think about.<BR/><BR/>Rawls is the more the area that I've been ploughing. What I keep digging at is the idea – aptly expressed by a line from ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ – that ‘there will be poor always’ and the implications that such a view has for any movement (progress) toward equality. I am MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-28239706551904454072007-07-13T13:10:00.000+10:002007-07-13T13:10:00.000+10:00I think what inequality is should be readily quant...I think what inequality is should be readily quantifiable, though in your asking I sense some sort of trap. <BR/><BR/>Letting that go for the moment and moving to its necessity, I'm inclined to go with some sort of neo-Rawlsian view - that it is <B>necessary</B> to achieve a certain kind of society, but that it is only <B>justifiable</B> when it benefits the least affluent members of that society.Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.com