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Christine Sypnowich is Professor and Head of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is author of Equality Renewed: Justice, Human Flourishing, and the Egalitarian Ideal and The Concept of Socialist Law. She is completing a book on the philosophy of G. A. Cohen.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
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