The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities
In this commentary on Torbjörn Tännsjö’s Setting Health-Care Priorities, I argue that sufficientarianism provides a valuable perspective in considering how to set health care priorities. I claim that pace Tännsjö, sufficientarianism does offer a distinct alternative to prioritarianism. To demonstrat...
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| description | In this commentary on Torbjörn Tännsjö’s Setting Health-Care Priorities, I argue that sufficientarianism provides a valuable perspective in considering how to set health care priorities. I claim that pace Tännsjö, sufficientarianism does offer a distinct alternative to prioritarianism. To demonstrate this, I introduce sufficientarianism and distinguish two forms: Tännsjö’s “weak sufficientarianism” and an alternative strong form of sufficientarianism that I call “revised lexical sufficientarianism.” I raise a problem for Tännsjö’s sufficientarianism, and advocate for the revised view on this basis. I then demonstrate that in the area of population ethics, the revised view outperforms the other views Tännsjö considers. As such, I aim to demonstrate that sufficientarianism — understood as its own theory and not just as a form of prioritarianism — offers unique advantages in population ethics, and would have been a valuable complement to the other theories Tännsjö considers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f37ee20577294256b3c7f28436dffbee2022-12-21T23:17:52ZengInstitute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian UniversityDiametros1733-55662021-01-0110.33392/diam.1605The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care PrioritiesJay Zameska0University of TartuIn this commentary on Torbjörn Tännsjö’s Setting Health-Care Priorities, I argue that sufficientarianism provides a valuable perspective in considering how to set health care priorities. I claim that pace Tännsjö, sufficientarianism does offer a distinct alternative to prioritarianism. To demonstrate this, I introduce sufficientarianism and distinguish two forms: Tännsjö’s “weak sufficientarianism” and an alternative strong form of sufficientarianism that I call “revised lexical sufficientarianism.” I raise a problem for Tännsjö’s sufficientarianism, and advocate for the revised view on this basis. I then demonstrate that in the area of population ethics, the revised view outperforms the other views Tännsjö considers. As such, I aim to demonstrate that sufficientarianism — understood as its own theory and not just as a form of prioritarianism — offers unique advantages in population ethics, and would have been a valuable complement to the other theories Tännsjö considers.https://diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/article/view/1605priority settinghealth-caresufficientarianismdistributive ethicsTorbjörn TännsjöSetting Health-Care Priorities |
| spellingShingle | Jay Zameska The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities Diametros priority setting health-care sufficientarianism distributive ethics Torbjörn Tännsjö Setting Health-Care Priorities |
| title | The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities |
| title_full | The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities |
| title_fullStr | The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities |
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| title_short | The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care Priorities |
| title_sort | sufficientarian alternative a commentary on setting health care priorities |
| topic | priority setting health-care sufficientarianism distributive ethics Torbjörn Tännsjö Setting Health-Care Priorities |
| url | https://diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/article/view/1605 |
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