Hence fulfilling an absolute or non-comparative standard for everyone (e.g. to the effect that nobody should starve) frequently results in a certain equality of outcomes that consist in lives that are not merely decent, but good.
"Men easily attain a certain equality of condition," he wrote, "but they can never attain as much as they desire...
"Among democratic nations," Tocqueville wrote after his tour of the United States in the 1830's, men easily attain a certain equality of condition, but they can never attain as much as they desire.
Bringing about a certain equality regarding the rights and duties of citizens is an important concern for Bolzano.
It's liberty where you have the infrastructures of society that make it possible, and one of the elements is a certain commitment to equality.
Roughly contemporaneous with the American Revolution, manners allowed the middle class, women and youth to begin to assert a certain social equality by adopting gentility, challenging the former monopoly of this trait by middle-aged aristocratic males.
A publication called The Progressive Taxpayer urged higher tax rates on the rich to "maintain among men a certain real equality". Joseph Pulitzer, the New York newspaper publisher, beat the drums for special taxes on high incomes, luxuries and inheritances.
For instance, Meer and Modood (2012) argue that to allow communication, there are certain equality and power sharing requirements, or, as Levrau and Loobuyck (2013, p. 622) highlight, the fact that the NCP assumes the need for a minimum level of shared language and public culture, setting the basis for communication (see also Barrett, 2013).
