Davies, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-7894 (2023) What do ‘humans’ need? Sufficiency and pluralism. Ethics, Policy & Environment. ISSN 2155-0085
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Sufficiency; cognitive disability; pluralism; need |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Wellcome Trust 221220/Z/20/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2023 12:29 |
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2023 12:29 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/21550085.2023.2247814 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206818 |
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