What follows is a brief review of the seven most prominent conceptions of distributive equality, each offering a different answer to one question: in the field of distributive justice, what should be equalized, or what should be the parameter or "currency" of equality?
As noted, the most prominent alternative conception identified in teachers' responses (both pre- and post-test) was problematic teleological language (i.e. need or goal-driven evolutionary change not associated with selection).
Prominent defenders of this conception are not hard to find, e.g. Minkowski (1908), Williams (1951), Smart (1980), Mellor (1981 , 1998 25.
On one prominent variant of this conception, consciousness is taken to be a kind of scanning or perceiving of one's own psychological states or processes — an 'inner sense' (Armstrong 1968, Carruthers 2000, 2002, Lycan 1995).
In contrast to the Analects, the ruler's duties to care for his people are more frequently discussed and play a more prominent role in the conception of a ruler's moral excellence.
Procedural conceptions have been prominent in the standard literature on autonomy from the 1970s to the present day (e.g., Dworkin 1970; Frankfurt 1988; Christman 2009).
This 'directedness' conception of intentionality plays a prominent role in the influential philosophical writings of Franz Brentano and those whose views developed in response to his (to be discussed further in Section 3).
Religious and mystical symbolism is prominent, most of it relating to the Immaculate Conception and the Annunciation.
