Answer by Rabail Anjum for Are all actually equal?
Everyone is not equal not even in the eyes of God. How would one explain the disability of people? Even that narrative failed in American history. I would like to quote Hobbes, "Life is nasty, brutish...
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This is a political declaration, akin to the earlier Magna Carta and Declaration of Arbroath. There is an appeal to divine authority, for which no evidence is adduced. In the context of the time, men...
View ArticleAnswer by Ludwig V for Are all actually equal?
The authors of the Declaration say that those propositions are self-evident. In their time, this was an idea that was generally accepted. But that is no longer the case. Here are links to the relevant...
View ArticleAnswer by lilHar for Are all actually equal?
John Donne created one of the world's most influential poems, one from which not just one, but two well known quotes come from.No man is an island,Entire of itself.Each is a piece of the continent,A...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco Ocram for Are all actually equal?
There isn't any evidence, and you would be foolish to expect there to be. The quotation is a statement of political belief- a guiding principle. Self-evident means evident without the need for proof....
View ArticleAnswer by Jo Wehler for Are all actually equal?
The text is the beginning of the Declaration of Independence of 13 American states from 1776. The declaration is addressed against the King of Great Britain.Hence the text is a political declaration,...
View ArticleAnswer by Rushi for Are all actually equal?
One must distinguish descriptive and prescriptive.Or declarative and imperative.Or positive and normative.Or is vs ought.Everyone is equal before the lawOr its more traditional formEveryone is equal in...
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”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
View ArticleAnswer by Nikos M. for Are all actually equal?
Two cents.One should understand that part of the document in two senses:a) As a reaction to arbitrary oppression by monarchies which held that the people (of the colonies) were inferior and subject to...
View ArticleAnswer by NotThatGuy for Are all actually equal?
The idea of everyone being equal is an ideological position*. Which is to say it's a proposal for how we should treat others (for one reason or another), rather than a statement of truth.It is, or can...
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Are all actually equal?”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,...
View ArticleAnswer by h_undatus for Are all actually equal?
It only seems self-evident if it’s assumed that the Christianity of the Founding Fathers is true:In late June of 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Benjamin Franklinasking him to edit the Declaration of...
View ArticleAnswer by SystemTheory for Are all actually equal?
This article gives details about the philosophical and political context where the key terms in philosophy or political philosophy are Natural Law and Natural...
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