Perfectionism about well-being is, at a minimum, the view that people's lives go well when, and because, they realize their capacities. It is common to link perfectionism with an idea of human essence or nature, to view well-being as the unfolding of characteristically human capacities. This article argues that perfectionism would be more plausible if it abandons reliance on the idea of human nature and focuses instead on the unfolding of some valuable capacities that need not be unique to, or shared by all human beings. The article develops this revised perfectionism through the dignitarian approach—the view that we have reason to organize our personal and social life in such a way that we respond appropriately to the valuable features of individuals that give rise to their dignity. According to the resulting proposal—Dignitarian Perfectionism—human individuals' well-being consists, at least in part, in developing and exercising the capacities at the basis of their dignity. Dignitarian Perfectionism is evaluative all the way down, pragmatic but not unprincipled, and holistic. Furthermore, it can make sense of the role of some generalizations that animated some of the plausibility of traditional perfectionism—and this without the pitfalls of reliance on an idea of human nature.

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完美主义与尊严

关于幸福的完美主义至少是这样一种观点，即人们在意识到自己的能力时，并且因为他们意识到自己的能力，他们的生活就会过得很好。将完美主义与人类本质或自然的观念联系起来是很常见的，将幸福视为人类特有能力的展现。本文认为，如果完美主义放弃对人性观念的依赖，转而关注一些不需要为全人类所独有或共有的有价值的能力的展现，那么它会更合理。这篇文章通过尊严主义的方法发展了这种修正的完美主义——认为我们有理由以这样一种方式组织我们的个人和社会生活，以便我们对个人的有价值的特征做出适当的反应，从而提高他们的尊严。根据由此产生的建议——尊严完美主义——人类个体的幸福至少部分地在于在其尊严的基础上发展和行使能力。高贵完美主义自始至终都是评估性的，务实但不无原则，整体性。此外，它可以理解一些概括的作用，这些概括激发了传统完美主义的一些合理性——而且没有依赖人性观念的陷阱。