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• 01 mar 2009

  Lisboa

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Estudios políticos

  Equality of Opportunity 2009

  Whose Opportunities? A Critique of Equality

  The meeting is of a scientific nature, envisaging dialogue among some of the most influential and original theorists of social policies of today. The common goal is to attempt to define the state of the art in the crucial discussion of Left-wing social policies in the 21st century, namely social equality, thus contributing to producing a well-balanced presentation of egalitarian political thought oriented for the future, as well as a well-defined ethics of responsibility necessary for the accomplishment of the social goals of the Left. The more specific goal is to contribute to clarifying the relation between equality of opportunity and meritocracy, in order to come to terms with the series of displacements that the notion and practice of «equal opportunities» has suffered since it came into the political debate in the post-French Revolution world.

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