0 believing that all people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities in life:
an egalitarian society
The party's principles are basically egalitarian.
1 a person who has egalitarian beliefs:
Adams was no egalitarian.
2 based on the idea that people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities:
an egalitarian society
Most contemporary egalitarians believe that inequality is bad only when the worse off are worse off through no fault of their own.
Most agency-independent egalitarians will think that he has an equality-based reason to help in both of the cases.
What should maximin egalitarians think about seniority privileges?
Whereas this argument was initially put forward by libertarians, egalitarians soon acknowledged its power and began to incorporate it into their own theories.
Liberal egalitarians object to strict egalitarianism because they believe that fairness requires that people should be held responsible for their choices.
On the priority view, we might reach much the same all-thingsconsidered judgements as moderate egalitarians; but we avoid the levelling down objection.
Where does this leave the debate between prioritarians and egalitarians?
To be part of such communities, then, would just be unfortunate for egalitarians.