Weighted sufficientarianisms: Carl Knight on the excessiveness objection

Abstract Carl Knight argues that lexical sufficientarianism, which holds sufficientarian concerns should have priority over other distributive goals, is ‘excessive’ in many distinct ways and sufficientarians either defend weighted sufficientarianism or become prioritarians. In this article, I distinguish three types of propose a view meets the excessiveness objection preferable to both Knight’s proposal prioritarianism. More specifically, multi-threshold gives benefits directly above below its thresholds, but lowest threshold highest threshold.