In order to be of equal worth, one has to be the same as.
So how does an institution like Amherst with an endowment that's still well above $1 billion make a pitch that it's needy, or at least equal in worth to other causes that lack any endowment, at a time like this? Amherst's new capital campaign is built around "Lives of consequence," the idea that a contribution to a liberal arts college helps develop the leaders of tomorrow.
"With a comment like that?" Moving on from the bacon defense, Willett said he believes everyone is "entitled to equal worth and dignity," and that he "never intended to disparage anyone". .
The Commission on Social Justice, set up by John Smith, reported in 1994 that the values of social justice were: equal worth of citizens, equal rights to be able to meet their basic needs, the requirement to spread opportunities as much as possible, and the need to remove unjustified inequalities.
Critics of the campaign argue that it undermines academic freedom; that all knowledge is of equal worth; that students ought to transcend cultural background in the interest of expanding knowledge; and that there are very good reasons why a philosophy, economics or history curriculum might be full of the works of dead white males.
Quakers see God in everyone and that leads us to say that all committed relationships are of equal worth and so we wish to celebrate them in the same way.
Following Mill, feminist scholars question how children whose first experiences of adult interaction are unequal altruism, domination and manipulation can learn and accept the principles of justice they need to be citizens in a democracy committed to the equal worth of all (Okin 1989).
Legalising same-sex marriage was the recognition that everyone is of equal worth and has the right to equal treatment under the law.
But even a commitment to the equal worth of every human being can be interpreted in ways that support local biases Kant, notoriously, maintained racist and sexist views long after coming up with his arguments for equal worth and Smith in any case says little to justify his egalitarian tendencies.
