Definition of Terms: Equality (Pt. 5)

Excerpt from, “From social justice warrior to Gospel-centered servant of God: An educator’s reflection on critical theory and Christianity” (Linkletter, 2021).

Equality is a difficult word to define because it is used in many different contexts. In its most traditional sense, equality “signifies a qualitative relationship” and a “correspondence between a group of different objects, person, processes, or circumstances that have the same qualities in at least one respect, but not all respects” (Gosepath, 2021). In this paper, we will be referring to political or social equality. “It helps to think of the idea of equality or inequality, in the context of social justice, not as a single principle, but as a complex group of principles forming the basic core of today’s egalitarianism” (Gosepath, 2021). Equality is idea that everyone should have equal opportunity in life.

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Reference

Gosepath, Stefan, “Equality”, The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/