Egalitarianistic Society
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An Egalitarianistic Society is a society that favors social equality for all society members.
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- See: Utopia, Political Freedom, Economic Freedom, Social Justice, Civil And Political Rights, Redistribution of Income And Wealth, Decentralization.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/egalitarianism Retrieved:2015-1-3.
- Egalitarianism — or, rarely, equalitarianism or equalism — is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people. [1] Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [2] According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English. [3] It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as equals and have the same political, economic, social, and civil rights or as a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people or the decentralization of power. Some sources define egalitarianism as the point of view that equality reflects the natural state of humanity. [4]
- ↑ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/egalitarian
- ↑ Arneson Richard, "Egalitarianism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002.) Web: <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism.>
- ↑ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egalitarianism
- ↑ Erdal, D. & Whiten, A. (1996) "Egalitarianism and Machiavellian Intelligence in Human Evolution" in Mellars, P. & Gibson, K. (eds) Modeling the Early Human Mind. Cambridge MacDonald Monograph Series
2009
- (Boehm, 2009) ⇒ Christopher Boehm. (2009). “Hierarchy in the Forest: The evolution of egalitarian behavior." Harvard University Press.
- QUOTE: Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong.