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Philosophical concept

Political equality

Political equality denies that civic standing should rest on an alleged natural hierarchy; it is tested in rights, representation, and law.

Works
99
Passages
1,665
Thinkers
29
Traditions
13

Understand uses of the concept

Political equality denies that civic standing should rest on an alleged natural hierarchy; it is tested in rights, representation, and law.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,665 passages across 99 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: égalité, equality, equal rights

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  11. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  12. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  14. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  15. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  16. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  17. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of SamosataLucian of Samosata · 0 passages
  20. Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  21. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  22. The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  23. The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by EinsteinAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  24. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  25. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  26. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  27. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  28. Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
  29. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  30. Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages