First among Equals : Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bejan, Teresa M.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.

Summary:

An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents like the Levellers and the political philosophers they inspired.Today, political theorists and philosophers treat as axiomatic the claim that all persons are equal.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Note on Conventions

Preface

Introduction: An Egalitarian Premise?

Part I: Equality Before Egalitarianism

1. An Equal Balance: Political Equality from Athens to Putney

2. Omnes Homines Aequales Sunt: Equality and (Dis)parity in Roman Law

3. Omnes Pares Sumus: Human Equality and Hierarchy in Roman Christianity and Natural Law

Part II: A Society of Equals

4. "By Their Peeres and Equalls": Lilburne, Leveling, and the Egalitarian Argument

5. "The True Levellers Standard": Digging and Slavery in Winstanley's Society of Equals

6. "Monster(S) of Strange Fashion": Hobbes, Hats, and the Society of Friends

Conclusion: Before and After

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Bejan, Teresa M. First among Equals

ISBN:

9780674306981

OCLC:

1614463580