CEVAP:

Equality is seen by the three ideologies as follows:

• Liberalism is wholly for equality, but only an equality of the self in relation to all other selves in terms of a shared structure of law.

• Socialism seeks an equality which does not offer the same to every self but offers the same to every self as constituted socially. This creates a difficulty about whether socialism is about equality as such or instead some sort of overcoming of inequalities according to phrases like ‘From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs’.

• Conservatism considers that we are all equal before God, if there is any enthusiasm for equality in conservatism at all, as more than a concession to secularity. This equality is so fundamental that it makes all other possible forms of equality, liberal or socialist, irrelevant. However, it is not a very extensive liberty in itself in this world.