In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have repre… - Merold Westphal

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In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.

Merold Westphal

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Merold Westphal (born 1940) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Fordham University.

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