egalitarian
adjective
formal uk
/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/ us
/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈter.i.ən/an egalitarian society
The party's principles are basically egalitarian.
Meaning of egalitarian in English
(Definition of egalitarian from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
egalitarian | American Dictionary
egalitarian
adjective
us
/ɪˌɡæl·əˈter·i·ən/an egalitarian society
Examples of egalitarian
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Most contemporary egalitarians believe that inequality is bad only when the worse off are worse off through no fault of their own.
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Most agency-independent egalitarians will think that he has an equality-based reason to help in both of the cases.
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What should maximin egalitarians think about seniority privileges?
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Whereas this argument was initially put forward by libertarians, egalitarians soon acknowledged its power and began to incorporate it into their own theories.
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Liberal egalitarians object to strict egalitarianism because they believe that fairness requires that people should be held responsible for their choices.
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On the priority view, we might reach much the same all-thingsconsidered judgements as moderate egalitarians; but we avoid the levelling down objection.
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Where does this leave the debate between prioritarians and egalitarians?
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To be part of such communities, then, would just be unfortunate for egalitarians.
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Many egalitarians believe that social inequalities are worse than natural ones.
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Additive aggregation is advocated by utilitarians and prioritarians, while equality-aggregation is favoured by strict egalitarians.
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As a matter of fact, it seems as though many egalitarians, who have considered them, have rejected them.
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Although egalitarians agree that utilitarianism is flawed, they disagree about what is valuable about equality and, hence, in their diagnoses of where utilitarianism goes wrong.
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In such a society, maximin egalitarians might well oppose the prohibition of seniority privileges by the state.
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Cases of levelling down suggest that the concerns that motivate us to be egalitarians may not be properly captured by egalitarianism.
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Though it is by no means logically required, we conjecture that most egalitarians would consider such a measure to be a bad bet.
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