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    It is not the case that Stirner does not subscribe to a resolutely anti-perfectionist position

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    • 1.Stirner's 'Ownness' (Eigenheit) is explicitly anti-normative: the unique one has no obligation to realize any character ideal, even self-mastery.
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    • 2.A perfectionism requires a normative standard against which development is measured, but Stirner denies all fixed standards as 'spooks' constraining the ego.
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    • 3.Without a normative developmental standard, what appears as a 'character ideal' in Stirner is merely a descriptive report of egoistic self-assertion, not a prescriptive perfectionist value.
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    • 1.Hurka's canonical account of perfectionism requires that human good consists in developing nature-grounded excellences, a framework Stirner explicitly dismantles by rejecting 'human nature' as an abstraction.
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    • 2.Attributing perfectionism to Stirner conflates the mere valorization of autonomy with perfectionism, when anti-perfectionist liberals like Rawls equally prize self-determination without endorsing perfectionist theory.
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    • 1.Stirner rejects essentialist perfectionism, which values characteristics that realise human nature
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    • 2.Stirner nonetheless embraces a character ideal of a self-ruling individual whose perfection is valuable apart from happiness or pleasure
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    • 3.An ideal of character that is valuable independently of happiness constitutes a form of perfectionism
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