Open AccessThe idea of equality as a double-bind of modern civilization
Author(s) -
N. S. OBOTUROVA,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ius publicum et privatum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2713-2811
DOI - 10.46741/2713-2811-2021-2-27-30
Subject(s) - dialectic , civilization , epistemology , sociology , postmodernism , law , inequality , social equality , law and economics , political science , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Analysis of the evolution of the idea of equality from its classical to its modern interpretations shows that in the history of human thought there have been many delusions, erroneous and false representations based on the understanding of equality not as an idea, direction, but as a really operating inevitable law. The absolutized literal understanding of equality, which is spreading today in the postmodern pluralistic worldview, turns it according to the author into a trap, a double-bind of modern civilization and creates disformative risks. Considering equality from the standpoint of the libertarian-legal type of legal thinking as primarily formal legal, the author analyzes the dialectics of equality and inequality, shows the conceptual, programmatic nature of the idea of equality in modern social development. It is equality in rights as a guaranteed by law and guaranteed by judicial protection the ability to realize in various spheres of life that has conceptual significance for the development of modern legal theory and practice and acts as a stabilizing basis for the development of our civilization.