7 sentences with “egalitarian”

Another important aspect of Judaism was its egalitarian ethical system.

He introduced a new Civil Code of 1804 (as usual, named after himself as the Code Napoleon), which preserved the egalitarian legal principles of 1789.

Her work was almost unprecedented in its egalitarian vision, anticipating ideas of human universalism that only came of age in the 19th century, and only became dominant views in the 20th century.

Others dreamed of a more egalitarian society and established their own idealistic communities. Still others, who saw slavery as the most serious flaw in American life, worked to end the institution.

The Jewish religion was the first to accept a truly egalitarian element in its ethic; no other people had proposed the idea of the essential equality of all human beings (although some aspects of the Egyptian religion came close).

What were the effects of Napoleon's reign? First, despite the manifest abuses of the occupied territories, Napoleon's army still brought with it significant reform. It brought with it a taste for a more egalitarian social system, a code of laws based on rationality rather than tradition, and a major weakening of the nobility.

Free blacks and mixed-race inhabitants of the colonies, once they heard of events in France, were quick to demand recognition of their own rights. Much more alarming to the members of the Assembly, the slaves of Saint-Domingue (who constituted approximately 90% of its population) also learned of the Revolution and its egalitarian promise.