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Organized around such themes as equality before the law, equality of opportunity, and equality of result, the selections included in this anthology range from Plato to the present, treating a topic of fundamental importance to political theory.

CONTENTS: Plato, “Democracy and Equality,” from Republic; Aristotle, “Proportional Equality,” from Politics; Levellers, “An Agreement of the People”; Hobbes, “Equality in Nature and Society,” from Leviathan; Rousseau, “The Genesis of Inequality,” from Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality Among Men, “Sophy,” from Emile; Burke, “Equality in Representation?” from Reflections on the Revolution in France; Tocqueville, “Equality, Democracy and Liberty,” from Democracy in America; Marx, “Human Equality”, from Critique of the Gotha Programme; Tawney, “Equality in Historical Perspective,” from Equality; von Hayek, “Equality, Value, and Merit,” from The Constitution of Liberty; Rawls, “Justice and Equality,” from A Theory of Justice; Nozick, “Equality versus Entitlement,” from Anarchy, State and Utopia; Sen, “Equality of What?”; Dworkin, “Equality of Resources”; Walzer, “Complex Equality,” from Spheres of Justice; Kymlicka, “Justice and Minority Rights,” from Multicultural Citizenship; Young, “Displacing the Distributive Paradigm,” from Justice and the Politics of Difference. Further Readings.

David Johnston is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University.