Sufficientarianism

Sufficientarianism is one of several main theories of distributive justice, concerned with a view of justice that emphasises the idea that all should have enough. In contrast to egalitarianism, the American philosopher Harry Frankfurt has suggested that when looking at economic distributions, the morally important thing is that all should have enough, not that all would have the same. John Roemer has suggested that this might be thought of as maximising the numbers of those who have enough (2004, p. 278). ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Further reading

• Casal, Paula. (2007) "Why sufficiency is not enough". Ethics 117.2 : 296–326.
• Crisp, Roger (2003) 'Equality, Priority, and Compassion', Ethics 113: 745–763.
• Parfit, Derek (1984) Reasons and Persons , Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

1. Frankfurt, H. (1987) 'Equality as a Moral Ideal', Ethics 98: 21–43.
2. Gosseries, A.(2011). Sufficientarianism. In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 16 January 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/sufficientarianism/v-1. doi:10.4324/9780415249126-S112-1
3. Timmer, D. (2022). Justice, thresholds, and the three claims of sufficientarianism. Journal of Political Philosophy, 30(3), 298–323.
4. Roemer, J. E. (2004). Eclectic distributional ethics. Politics, philosophy & economics, 3(3), 267–281.
5. Huseby, R. (2019). Sufficientarianism. In Oxford research encyclopedia of politics (https://oxfordre.com/politics).
6. Mulligan, T. (2015). On Harry Frankfurt's "Equality as a Moral Ideal". Ethics, 125(4), 1171–1173.
7. Axelsen, David V., & Lasse Nielsen. (2015) Sufficiency as freedom from duress, Journal of Political Philosophy, 23.4 : 406–426