Lectures on Equality: considerations about the oscillations of a concept in the perspective of several authors from the XVII to XX centuries

Abstract

This article seeks to elaborate a comparative view on some of the lectures about the notion of equality that were developed by different authors from the end of the XVII century and the first half of the twentieth century. Specifically several authors were chosen to reach this objective, although they are not, the only ones that bring important contributions for the development of the concept of equality in the human sciences and in the political imaginary. The objective of this paper is to show how the various lectures about the ideas of equality and inequality developed by these authors, contrast among themselves and are related to different schools of thought. The analysis of these authors´ thoughts concerning the idea of equality permits, at the same time, evaluate some of classic models related to this discussion.