The politics of equal dignity has emerged in Western civilization
in two ways, which we could associate with the names
of two standard-bearers, Rousseau and Kant. This doesn’t
mean that all instances of each have been influenced by
these masters (though that is arguably true for the Rousseauean
branch), just that Rousseau and Kant are prominent
early exponents of the two models. Looking at the two models
should enable us to gauge to what extent they are guilty
of the charge of imposing a false homogeneity.