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Abstract: Although egalitarianism has been a dominant orthodoxy in Anglophone social and political philosophy for many decades, there have been strikingly few attempts to justify the assumption on which that orthodoxy appears to rest, namely that human moral worth does not come in degrees. This paper considers two approaches to grounding basic equality between human beings. The first favours accounts that seek to preserve consistency with metaphysical naturalism; the second relies on more contentious assumptions about the metaphysical status of the human person. I outline reasons for thinking that none of these approaches to grounding basic equality offers a theoretically satisfying solution. I conclude by sketching permutations of a theistic strategy before arguing that one of these meets many explanatory criteria that a successful solution would seem to require.
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