Against the Applicability Argument for Sufficientarianism

Pedersen, Cecilia Maria; Nielsen, Lasse

doi:10.1007/s10790-021-09874-2

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“…Second, as well as having multiple thresholds in a vertical sense (i.e. upper and lower thresholds), sufficientarians can be horizontal pluralists, whereby there are different aspects of sufficiency which are not fully fungible (Pedersen & Nielsen, in press ). On this view, the fact that someone is content with what they have marks one important form of sufficiency, but not the only one.…”

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What Do ‘Humans’ Need? Sufficiency and Pluralism

Davies

2023

Ethics, Policy & Environment

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Sufficientarians face a problem of arbitrariness: why place a sufficiency threshold at any particular point? One response is to seek universal goods to justify a threshold. However, this faces difficulties (despite sincere efforts) by either being too low, or failing to accommodate individuals with significant cognitive disabilities. Some sufficientarians have appealed to individuals’ subjective evaluations of their lives. I build on this idea, considering another individualized threshold: ‘tolerability’. I respond to some traditional challenges to individualistic approaches to justice: ‘expensive’ tastes, and adaptive preferences. Finally, I end by offering some suggestions about how this relates to policymaking.

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What Do ‘Humans’ Need? Sufficiency and Pluralism

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Against the Applicability Argument for Sufficientarianism

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What Do ‘Humans’ Need? Sufficiency and Pluralism

What Do ‘Humans’ Need? Sufficiency and Pluralism

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