The article calling for the redistribution of the means of production, for example, should be understood as seeking equal opportunities for all, he insists.
This idea is built on the premise that in a just society, citizens should be understood as free and equal participants in a system of social cooperation.
In a now commonly posed distinction, stemming from Dworkin (1977, p. 370), moral equality can be understood as prescribing treatment of persons as equals, i.e., with equal concern and respect, and not the often implausible principle of treating persons equally.
Though such a liberal view of divorce was unacceptable in Milton's era, it struck a more responsive chord in those countries where at the turn of the 21st century marriage was understood as a voluntary union between equals.
The two truths, understood as, respectively, the empty and the dependently arisen characters of phenomena, are on equal footing according to Gelug.
From this more general perspective, also earlier campaigns for equal rights be it by workers, women or African Americans should be understood as "struggles for recognition".
It is particularly important for non-journalists to understand that they have as much and as equal access to a democratic, complex and unlimited international communication platform as any journalist.
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