@article {1299, title = {Is Harry Frankfurt{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}Doctrine of Sufficiency{\textquotedblright} Sufficient?}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {23}, number = {1}, year = {2016}, pages = {50-71}, type = {State}, abstract = {In his article, {\textquotedblleft}Equality as a Moral Ideal{\textquotedblright}, Harry Frankfurt argues against economic egalitarianism and presents what he calls the {\textquotedblleft}doctrine of sufficiency.{\textquotedblright} According to the doctrine of sufficiency, what is morally important is not relative economic equality, but rather, whether somebody has enough, where {\textquotedblleft}having enough{\textquotedblright} is a non-comparative standard of reasonable contentment that may differ from person to person given his/her aims and circumstances. The purpose of this paper is to show that Frankfurt{\textquoteright}s original arguments in support for his doctrine of sufficiency have critical problems that Frankfurt himself does not properly recognize. In the end, I will argue that in order to solve these problems the doctrine of sufficiency cannot help but to incorporate certain prioritarian commitments {\textendash} commitments which many would view as implying economic egalitarianism. This is embarrassing for a doctrine whose raison d{\textquoteright}{\^e}tre was mainly to defeat economic egalitarianism.}, keywords = {Egalitarianism, Frankfurt, prioritarianism, sufficiency, sufficientarianism}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2016/1/50-71.pdf}, author = {Chung, Hun} }