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Matilda Carter

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Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds matildacarter.com

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Leeds Thematic Hub for Social Care, Health, Ethics & Philosophy @schepleeds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCHEP is a new thematic hub for Social Care, Health, Ethics & Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Our aim is to foster a collaborative, cross-disciplinary teaching and research culture that builds on our existing strengths. Follow us for updates on events, research, and teaching collaborations!
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have begrudgingly concluded that the LLM-induced em dash panic has made me a better writer. If I could only find some external reason to be worried about using italics for emphasis, I think I might one day be able to write something that I actually enjoy reading back.
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Encouraged by the urgency with which Burnham is treating social care reform. But any cross-party talks must consider the broader picture here: what is social care? What goal are we trying to accomplish by providing it? This is ultimately about what we value, and we cannot afford to ignore that.
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Our blog is now on Substack - come find us if you’re interested in applied ethics: open.substack.com/pub/ethicsun...
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Ethics Untangled | Substack
Click to read Ethics Untangled, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.
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Matthieu @matthieuldn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This week, @uclspp.bsky.social's UCL Uncovering Politics podcast asks how the tradition of parading in Northern Ireland affects relations between its historically divided communities. Listen via the link below or wherever you listen to your podcasts!
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The Impact of Parades in Northern Ireland | UCL Uncovering Politics
This week we ask how the tradition of parading in Northern Ireland affects relations between its historically divided communities.
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Vid… @nyt.com.web.brid.gy · 15/06/2026
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The Pain of Caring for a Parent Who Abused You
The United States is reliant on unpaid family caregivers, and millions of adult children are caring for parents who didn’t really care for them.
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Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My latest article in @theconversation.com explores some of the ways using AI may undermine intimacy. AI might promise to make things easier but I suggest there is value in being curious, figuring things out, and failing, especially in intimate life. theconversation.com/as-ai-plays-...
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As AI plays a bigger role in relationships, true intimacy is getting lost
The normalisation of AI to mediate and shape intimacy arguably erodes self-curiosity.
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
In our third post for #DementiaActionWeek, Dr Andrew Stanners reflects on @matildacarter.bsky.social’s work to consider how we could best care for people with dementia: ethics-untangled.ghost.io/deciding-how...
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Deciding how best to care for people with dementia
In our final post for Dementia Action Week 2026, Dr Andrew Stanners reflects on Matilda Carter’s work to consider how we could best care for people with dementia. Andrew is a consultant physician for ...
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Never in my wildest dreams did I think enough people would care enough about my thoughts on dementia care to spend a day talking about them. Check out the new Ethics Untangled blog for my reflections on my recent book launch workshop.
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you missed it, here is @matildacarter.bsky.social discussing her recent book on dementia, justice, and social care: ethics-untangled.ghost.io/dementia-equ...
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Dementia, Equality, and the Future of Social Care
This year, Dementia Action Week runs from May 18–24. Throughout the month, we'll be discussing dementia and the ethics of care on the blog. In our first post, Luke Brunning sits down with Matilda Cart...
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Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In the most recent issue of the @idea-leeds.bsky.social blog I interview @matildacarter.bsky.social about her new book on dementia, equality and social care. ethics-untangled.ghost.io/dementia-equ...
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Dementia, Equality, and the Future of Social Care
This year, Dementia Action Week runs from May 18–24. Throughout the month, we'll be discussing dementia and the ethics of care on the blog. In our first post, Luke Brunning sits down with Matilda Cart...
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Coming soon on our blog: @matildacarter.bsky.social on her new book about dementia, equality and justice! Follow our blog for the full interview: ethics-untangled.ghost.io
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Some promising news on regional cooperatives buried in here, but what a headline…
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Private equity benefits as spending on social care providers jumps 20%
Children’s sector offers steady revenues for buyout firms as cases of autism and other conditions increase
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Ethics Untangled podcast @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In the latest episode of Ethics Untangled, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril joins me to look at the ethics of long COVID and the ways it is reshaping how we think about disability, care, and community. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...
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60. How should long covid change how we think about disability? With Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril - Ethics Untangled
In this episode, we’re looking at the ethics of long COVID and the ways it is reshaping how we think about disability, care, and community. Long COVID has left millions of people living with chronic s...
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Rosa. @rosadluxe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
People who theorise across social difference! Deadline upcoming! Apply by Sunday 10th May 23:59GMT
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Is informal dementia care really preferable to its professional counterpart? I discuss this, among other questions, on this episode of UCL Uncovering Politics.
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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our research fellow Rosa is putting on this great workshop in August - follow the link for more info and to apply to attend! justtheorising.weebly.com
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JUST THEORISING 2026
A reading workshop on responsible and responsive philosophical research. Participants will discuss the epistemological and methodological issues surrounding theorising across social difference.   We.....
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Ethics Untangled podcast @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
**ANNOUNCEMENT** Ethics Untangled now also has a blog and newsletter! We'll be using it to write about ethics of all kinds, whether it's based on our or other ethicists' research, stories from the news or just things that we think are interesting. Sign up for free using the link below.
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A timely reminder of our dire national need for a resurgence of local journalism.
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There are two Gallowgates — but you can only get injera at one of them
Welcome to Little Eritrea
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Ethics Untangled podcast @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New episode of Ethics Untangled out today featuring IDEA's own Matilda Carter, asking: how should we care for people with dementia? This is an episode that really might fundamentally change the way you think about something important. It did for me. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...
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59. How should we care for people living with dementia? With Matilda Carter - Ethics Untangled
In this episode, I'm talking to Matilda Carter, a lecturer in Applied Ethics at IDEA The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds, about the ethics of dementia care, and asking what justice requires f...
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals - @matildacarter.bsky.social is hosting a workshop about her recently published book on the 14th of May. It's free to attend. Details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch Workshop – Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals
A workshop to celebrate the publication of Matilda Carter's new monograph: Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals
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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Missed out on our Philosophy Valentines event? Or just want to relive the talks? Now you can! Georgie, Colette, Gerald and Isobel’s talks are now available on Spotify (and Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon Music…) - search Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships💕
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hey look at this cool job we're advertising here at the London School of Economics department of Philosophy. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ264/2...
Funding is available to support this position for a total 2 years for each position.

Two postdoctoral researchers are being recruited for the ‘Your Boss is a Machine – Protecting Worker Autonomy in an AI-Driven Economy’ project, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Grant and led by Associate Professor Kate Vredenburgh. Each postdoctoral researcher will be hosted at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the LSE, although they will have the opportunity to interact with a range of departments at the LSE through collaboration and mentorship. Each position is tenable in the first instance for two years during the fixed term period of the grant project, with the possibility to extend a further year that is contingent upon successful project renewal in 2028.

The successful candidate will conduct innovative and significant research as part of the project team, working collaboratively with Kate Vredenburgh and making connections with other scientific collaborators at the LSE or other institutions. We are open to candidates from philosophy, economics, sociology, or law, as long as they have demonstrated expertise in research related to AI and the future of work, and demonstrate a willingness to engage with an interdisciplinary team. In addition, thanks to the Future Leaders Fellowship grant, they will have ample opportunities for mentorship from senior faculty in their discipline at the LSE, and a sustained focus on their own research trajectory and success within the project.  

The successful applicant will;

    have successfully completed or be close to completing a PhD in Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, or Law by the post start date;
    have the ability to make significant, innovative contributions in this area, on topics relating to the project (broadly construed);
    be willing to work harmoniously and closely with their fellow team-members on the project.

Ideally, the successful applicant will begin in September 2026.
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Nearly 9 years on from starting my PhD, feels surreal to be holding the book that emerged from it in my hands.
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Leeds Uni PRHS @leedsprhs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In this new @ctp-leeds.bsky.social blog, Dr Andrew Kirton shares why we shouldn’t be too quick to outsource our writing jobs to AI. As he argues, if we use GenAI to think and write we do lose something. Find out what it is in this blog. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-theor...
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What do we lose through using Generative AI to write?
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The British Philosophical Association has launch a new annual prize competition to celebrate the best of British Philosophy: bpa.ac.uk/prizes/. #philosophymatters
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BPA Annual Prizes - British Philosophical Association
Welcome to the BPA Annual Prizes, launched in 2026 to recognize and celebrate the best of philosophy in the UK. All the details are below. Applications are welcomed from a nominator for each award. Ca...
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Jess Asato MP @jessasatomp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
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AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Frances Darling - 'Epistemic Reparations and Disability', forthcoming and open access at Phil Studies:
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Epistemic reparations and disability - Philosophical Studies
Epistemic reparations are argued to be deserved by those wronged by gross injustices and violations, to provide redress for epistemic wrongs incurred by victims and survivors. I apply epistemic repara...
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Exciting news: my monograph is now available on Cambridge Core! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals
Cambridge Core - Psychiatry - Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
What can a shallow pond teach us about our moral obligations to strangers? On the latest @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social episode, David Edmonds joins Jim to explore the story behind Peter Singer’s famous thought experiment — and why it still provokes such fierce debate today.
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 03/12/2025
'Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals', a new blog by Matilda Carter , author of RELATING TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AS EQUALS 📚 cup.org/487ky35 #bioethics #medicallaw
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Each January, IDEA the Ethics Centre hosts an informal colloquium on Biomedical and Health Care Ethics at Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley. Find out more here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
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Prof Katherine Sleeman @katherinesleeman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England was published yesterday. It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill. It’s had almost no media coverage. committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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Ethics Untangled podcast @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Great blog post by IDEA's Matilda Carter on Power, Status and the Dementia Care Relationship. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...
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Power, Status, and the Dementia Care Relationship
One afternoon, having just clocked-in, I sat myself down next to a resident of the care home I worked at in the mid-2010s, and asked her what she thought about the programme she was watching on TV.
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Wrote about my history in dementia care and my motivations for working on my forthcoming monograph. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...
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Power, Status, and the Dementia Care Relationship
One afternoon, having just clocked-in, I sat myself down next to a resident of the care home I worked at in the mid-2010s, and asked her what she thought about the programme she was watching on TV.
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Should relational egalitarians always oppose stigma? I argue no. Where stigma is unwarranted, relational egalitarians should oppose it. But where it is *warranted*, it is at the very least unobjectionable and, in some circumstances, may even be obligatory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
If you like your mind extended and your equality relational, my new paper in Synthese is for you. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Relational equality for extended minds - Synthese
Synthese - This paper deals with the impact of the extended mind thesis on relational egalitarianism: the now-dominant view on (the politically relevant form of) equality within contemporary...
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Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Don't miss our new handbook: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics An authoritative guide to care ethics: what it is, debates within the field, and the contributions it can make to contemporary issues. Learn more: bit.ly/45LEA0z Preview: bit.ly/4lxyCpG
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
So pleased to see the Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics available in print!
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics
Emphasising the vulnerability and interdependence of humans, care ethics has emerged in recent years as a powerful alternative to dominant modes of thinking in…
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Join us next month for this fantastic conference!
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics appears to be available to all those whose institutions have subscribed to Bloomsbury Collections. Mine hasn't. But it's exciting nonetheless. www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...
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Bloomsbury Collections
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Had a great chat with the committee of UCL's Minorities and Philosophy chapter recently, setting out the case for viewing mental disabilities as neutral with respect to well-being. You can take a listen here (or on Spotify, if you prefer). soundcloud.com/user-2185781...
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EDI Dialogues at UCL Arts and Humanities - Episode 7 - Minority Minds: Mental Disability & The Politics of Difference
In this episode of the EDI Dialogues podcast, hosts Liam Gorner and Jack Zhang (both from UCL's student-run Minorities and Philosophy chapter) speak with Dr. Matilda Carter, British Academy Postdoctor
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Had a fantastic time hosting this group of speakers, over the last two days, to talk through normative questions raised by our ageing societies. Thanks to all who attended too; it was a lovely way to cap off my time here in Glasgow!
7 academics standing in front of a screen with text that reads: “Ethics, Politics, and Care in the Ageing Society”
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Holly Stallcup (she/her) @hollystallcup.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
One thing I feel pretty confident I will be teaching writers for years to come is that your process has to be what works for you and not what anyone else is telling you is the way to do it. Years into my MFA, I FINALLY have my process and it is so against what most people teach.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
As good a time as any to recirculate this article I published in 2022…
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Trans Women Are (or Are Becoming) Female: Disputing the Endogeneity Constraint | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Trans Women Are (or Are Becoming) Female: Disputing the Endogeneity Constraint - Volume 37 Issue 2
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Matilda Carter @matildacarter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New article in open access with Analytic Philosophy. In this piece, I pull apart arguments about the nature of justice and the nature of equality in relational egalitarian literature, giving an account of a relational approach to justice that need not necessarily be egalitarian.
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On the Quality of Relational Justice
By emphasising the role of concepts like social status, power and respect, all relational egalitarians seek to demonstrate that there is more to the political concept of equality than the distributio...
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