现代意义上平等的产生是一个历史的事件。平等的历程一旦启动,平等就会自我强化、自我增殖。社会发展对平等理念不断反反复复地渗透、传播、强化与使用,使得平等理念往往被人们当作天经地义、不可解释、不需理由的终极真理而接受。在现代性视野中,结合社会现实的发展,可以将平等划分为公民地位的平等、机会的平等以及对弱势者平等生存权利的保障三种形式。平等的有效实施将会极大地促进社会的发展与和谐。 Equality in the modern sense is a historical event. Once the process of equality is initiated, equality will self-reinforcing and self-proliferation. The concept of equality has been constantly pervaded, propagated, strengthened and used by social development so that the concept of equality is often accepted as the ultimate truth of right, inexplicable and unwarranted reason. In the perspective of modernity, in combination with the development of social reality, equality can be divided into three forms: equality of citizenship, equality of opportunity and protection of the equal rights of the underprivileged. Equality and effective implementation will greatly promote social development and harmony.