Working Hard and Kicking Back: The Case for Diachronic Perfectionism
Antti Kauppinen · Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy · 2009
Dan Haybron has argued by counterexample that perfectionism fails as a theory of well-being. I respond by articulating two different versions of diachronic perfectionism, which takes into account the level of development and exercise of essential human capacities over the course of an entire lifetime.