ABSTRACT
The third key principle in the liberal-democratic vocabulary is the principle of equality. It is largely by reference to this that they argue that the Republic is unjust in a distributive sense. Popper claims that 'Equalitarianism was his [Plato's] arch enemy' and 'he was out to destroy it'. 1 Russell says that 'we have come to associate justice with equality, while for Plato it has no such implication'; his definition of justice 'makes it possible to have inequalities of power and privilege without injustice'. 2
