Age, Equality, and Vulnerability

Abstract

This Article uses age as an entry point for examining how temporal
and methodological issues in egalitarianism make substantive equality
an unattractive goal for vulnerability theory. Instead, vulnerability
theory should adopt a continuous doctrine of sufficiency, which is a
better ft with vulnerability theory’s underlying aims and rhetoric.
Instead of evaluating what individuals have in relation to others,
sufficiency refocuses the inquiry on whether we have enough throughout
the lifecourse. In the context of vulnerability theory, enough should
be defined as the capability to be resilient as guaranteed by the
responsive state.