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equality and inequality  

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  • Ideas about equality have played a central and controversial role in political discourse from a very early time. Plato ridiculed the notion of equality in The Republic, and Aristotle, a student of Plato, was similarly critical. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Equality and Inequality]

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