(September 24, 2014 at 3:45 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(September 24, 2014 at 3:36 pm)Tonus Wrote: I'm curious as to how others define human perfection.
Those are some standard Christian views too. I tend to think of my own situation and how I hold myself back. The 7 deadly sins articulate it I suppose.
Morally, Aristotle's formulation points at why perfection in the abstract doesn't really make a lot of sense. He would say the best way is always a "golden mean" between an extreme of excess and another of deficiency. So the brave person was somewhere between foolhardy and cowardly. So perfection, if it exists at all, is a tension between traits. To me that suggests that it is always situationally dependent as well.