Equality must govern politics even though it is technically a fiction

Evidence

Equality in people is impossible because of their different natures, life contents, and destinies. On the other hand, the equality of everybody with everybody else in an enslaved mass, such as we find in the great oriental despotisms, applies only to certain specific aspects of existence—political or economic aspects, for example—never to the total personality. … For innate qualities, personal relations, and decisive experiences inevitably make for some sort of uniqueness and irreplaceability in both the individual’s self-evaluation and his interactions with others. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 187 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: True equality among people is impossible due to inescapable uniqueness — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 187; Equality achieved becomes the platform for further competition and surpassing; Equality is produced by political organization, not given by nature — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 736 (+3 more)

Related

• True equality among people is impossible due to inescapable uniqueness (similarity 0.92)
• Equality achieved becomes the platform for further competition and surpassing (similarity 0.88)
• Equality is produced by political organization, not given by nature (similarity 0.86)
• No institution can fully reconcile social uniformity and individual differentiation. (similarity 0.84)
• Individual uniqueness as a value denies equality rather than grounds it (similarity 0.83)
• Liberated individuals turn from equality toward distinguishing themselves from others (similarity 0.82)
• Individuality and universal equality historically arise as twin reactions to inequality (similarity 0.81)
• Inclusive universal claims arise from within the particular (similarity 0.81)
• The eighteenth century equated individuality with freedom and assumed natural human equality (similarity 0.80)
• Real equality is experienced associationally and requires consciousness to be real (similarity 0.79)
• Modern equality makes ineradicable natural differences the basis of cruel group conflict (similarity 0.79)
• Universalizing equality made freedom-as-non-domination seem unrealistic (similarity 0.79)
• Biological determinism is used to excuse structural inequality. (similarity 0.78)
• Modern individuality values being this specific irreplaceable person, not mere freedom (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• True equality among people is impossible due to inescapable uniqueness #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 187