First Among Equals: How Did Equality Become an Egalitarian Ideal? - A Society of Equals?
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- Pharos Foundation
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- New College, Holywell Street, Oxford
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- Oxford
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Professor Teresa Bejan concludes the Pharos Autumn Lectures with “A Society of Equals?” The final lecture considers how others answered Lilburne’s argument, among them the Diggers, the Quakers, Hobbes and Locke, each of whom developed a distinct vision of a society of equals. Tuesday 24 November, 5pm Noel Salter Room, New College, Oxford The Pharos Foundation is pleased to announce the Pharos Autumn Lectures 2026, to be delivered by Professor Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at Oriel College, Oxford. Political theorists widely take it as given that all people are equal. Yet what equality means, and what it requires of us, is far from settled, and the history of the idea is full of ambiguities. In three lectures under the title “First Among Equals: How Did Equality Become an Egalitarian Ideal?”, Professor Bejan traces that history from antiquity to seventeenth-century England. Professor Bejan is the author of Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration and First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism. Tuesday 27 October: Equality before Egalitarianism Tuesday 10 November: Lilburne, Levelling, and the Egalitarian Argument Tuesday 24 November: A Society of Equals? All lectures begin at 5pm in the Noel Salter Room, New College, Oxford.
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