Concept

Perfection

Overview

Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence.

The term designates a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts used in a variety of fields.

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But the first perfection is the cause of the second, because the form is the principle of operation. Now the final perfection, which is the end of the whole universe, is the perfect beatitude of the Saints at the consummation of the world; and the first perfection is the completeness of the universe at its first founding, and this is what is ascribed to the seventh day. Reply Obj. 1: The first perfection is the…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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It is enough that it be realized in feeling, so as to give us pleasure. Perfection is defined "as increase of being. As sickness is, as it were, a lowering and a falling off from health, so perfection is something which mounts above health.
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Names Perfection several times; states what Perfection is.
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But the notion of perfection in a practical sense is the fitness or sufficiency of a thing for all sorts of purposes. This perfection, as a quality of man and consequently internal, is nothing but talent and, what strengthens or completes this, skill.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
Names Perfection several times; states what Perfection is.
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