April
22, 2025
Equality
The
principle of equality was stated in opposition to a society in which social
classes performed functions based on inheritance: the children of kings ruled,
nobles administered, peasants farmed, artisans crafted, and so on.
However, what later became clear is that declaring, in principle, that everyone
is equal and therefore can hold any position based on their merits is merely a
theoretical idea, because the economic and cultural conditions of a family
strongly influence children from birth.
Hence the need for State intervention to remove such obstacles—something that is
not simple and that significantly affects Western societies, which have by now
abandoned classical liberalism in favor of the welfare state.