Mortimer Adler states that the basic definition of equality is when something or someone is not more or less than something or someone else. He expands this definition by breaking equality down into three different dimensions of which the only one that we are not endowed with, but are still entitled to is circumstantial equality.This is an equality of condition, status, opportunities, treatment, etc. We are entitled to this equality for no other reason than that we are humans endowed equally in our humanity, one person being no more human than another. In western civilization, specifically in the Declaration of Independence, this idea is considered self-evident; however, that is not the case. Many ancient philosophers believed that some people
