A Critical Study of Social Equality

A Critical Study of Social Equality

Different viewpoints toward equality have continually been expressed throughout history. Most recent of which, include the modern political ideas of communism and the democratic/capitalist systems of government in the west. A search to employ equality by various means has proven to be an extremely difficult task. Consequently, equality seems to be a central issue in utopian literature, as philosophers have continually sought to find the best structure for society, one in which all can be equal or at the least be provided with the equality of opportunity. However, as this essay further explores equality, one realizes that within the confines of a capitalist economy, total equality is unfeasible. Nonetheless, total equality may not be what we should strive for, but rather the equality of opportunity.
One such example of a philosopher in search of equality is evident in Condorcet’s “Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human M...