ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses intergenerational justice by distinguishing between sufficientarian and egalitarian conceptions of justice. A strictly egalitarian position by which understands a position that holds equality to be of intrinsic value is open to the so-called levelling- down-objection. As explained, the position of weak sufficientarianism can be understood as a qualified priority view. The position of strong sufficientarianism, however, can be understood as a qualified maximin view. Strong sufficientarianism differs from weak sufficientarianism in how it interprets the priority of persons below the threshold. The position of strong sufficientarianism is absolutist in the sense that it attributes absolute or lexical priority to the improvement of the not well off the position is single-level in so far as it attributes special moral significance to only one level of well-being. A particular reason for holding a sufficientarian understanding of intergenerational justice relies upon a certain response to the so-called non-identity problem.
