That Pesky Enlightenment

It continues to cause problems.  Let’s consider one of the bedrock principles from the Enlightenment: “equality.”  Pay attention to the evolution of the term.

From John Locke:

A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst...