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complex equality  

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  • Michael Walzer in his book Spheres of Justice suggests that power and domination can be avoided if a society promotes complex equality. His definition of complex equality states: no social good x should be distributed to men and to women who possess some other good y merely because they possess y and without regard to the meaning of x. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Complex Equality (Walzer)]

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