> Limitarianism is the view that no-one should enjoy more than an upper limit of some valuable goods or resources > Plato's Socrates identifies the ‘endless a

> Limitarianism is the view that no-one should enjoy more than an upper limit of some valuable goods or resources > Plato's Socrates identifies the ‘endless acquisition of money’ (Plato, 1997b, 373d) as the main cause of civil unrest and war. > In his last dialogue, the Laws, Plato gives a more or less complete limitarian account with a specification of both a lower and an upper threshold. According to this account, ‘extreme poverty and wealth must not be allowed to arise in any section of the citizen-body’ (Plato, 1997a, 744d). > Many theories of ethics and theories of political morality invoke a principle of sufficiency–the idea that no-one should suffer because of poverty or destitution. Generally, this view entails a lower threshold level above which every member of a society should be raised (necessaries), but in some cases it also involves an upper threshold above which individual property should be redistributed in one form or another (superfluities).