Prioritarianism, or the priority view,[1] is a perspective within ethics and political philosophy stating that "social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse off".[2] Prioritarianism resembles utilitarianism, and is likewise a form of aggregative consequentialism.
The term "prioritarianism" was coined by the moral philosopher Larry Temkin. Richard Arneson, a proponent of the view,[3] offers the following formulation:
Prioritarianism holds that the moral value of achieving a benefit for an individual (or avoiding a loss) is greater, the greater the size of the benefit as measured by a well-being scale, and the greater, the lower the person's level of well-being over the course of her life apart from receipt of this benefit.[4]
Prioritarianism is one interpretation of distributive justice and is often pitted against egalitarianism.[5][failed verification][6]
^Brunori, Paolo (26 January 2021). "Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity" (PDF). Wellbeing and Human Development Project Preprint and Discussion Paper Series: 1.
^Arneson, Richard (January 2000). "Luck Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism". Ethics. 110 (2): 339–349. doi:10.1086/233272. S2CID 15536237.
^Arneson, Richard, "Egalitarianism", in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (fall 2008 edition).
^Hirose, Iwao (2011), Brooks, Thom (ed.), "Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism", New Waves in Ethics, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 88–107, doi:10.1057/9780230305885_6, ISBN 978-0-230-30588-5, retrieved 2022-04-20
worse off". Prioritarianism resembles utilitarianism, and is likewise a form of aggregative consequentialism. The term "prioritarianism" was coined by...
utilitarianism and on luck egalitarianism. He is also a proponent of prioritarianism. Arneson has also critiqued Marxism, arguing that capitalism was exploitative...
necessarily aggregate well-being (as it happens, for instance, with prioritarianism, which promotes achieving the higher level of happiness minus suffering...
utilitarian decision-making. Other forms of consequentialism include Prioritarianism. Deontological ethics, which hold that acts have an inherent rightness...
of the victims. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, "Private Discrimination: A Prioritarian, Desert-Accommodating Account", San Diego Law Review, 43, 817-856 (2006);...
would thus differ from other consequentialist views, such as negative prioritarianism or negative consequentialist egalitarianism. While these other theories...
"compassionate" utilitarian metric, so that the result is the same as in prioritarianism. Motive utilitarianism was first proposed by Robert Merrihew Adams...
dedicated to climate change mitigation, adaptation, or other things. Prioritarianism offers one ethical justification for imploring a high discount rate...
distributive justice. Utilitarianism, Egalitarianism, Sufficientarianism and Prioritarianism are the standard candidates when it comes to principles of distribution...
perceived results, without causing (macro) problems. A Theory of Justice Prioritarianism Social equity Triage Utilitarianism McKie, John & Jeff Richardson (2003)...
humanitarianism.” And the word “prioritarianism” first appears in Temkin’s “Equality, Priority, and the Levelling Down Objection”. Prioritarianism has great plausibility...
Iwao (2019), Egalitarianism, OCLC 1089994676 DAISY text audiobook. "Prioritarianism and Egalitarianism", forthcoming in Brooks, T. (ed.) New Waves in Ethics...
gas emissions and proposed a distribution of emission rights based on prioritarian principles, contending that people in developing countries should be...
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