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    It is not the case that Stirner's position is best described as anti-essentialist perfectionism

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    • 1.Stirner's 'ownness' (Eigenheit) functions as a quasi-essential property: the irreducible self that must be actualized against all external determinations.
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    • 2.If ownness is a necessary feature of every individual that grounds normative claims, then Stirner's view presupposes a minimal essentialism rather than eliminating it.
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    • 3.A perfectionism grounded in a universal structural feature of selfhood cannot coherently be called anti-essentialist without equivocation on 'essence'.
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    • 1.Perfectionism, as theorized by Hurka and Aristotle, requires that the ideal toward which development tends be specifiable independently of individual preference.
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    • 2.Stirner explicitly denies any such independently specifiable ideal, reducing value entirely to the singular ego's self-assertion in the moment.
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    • 3.A view that rejects all normative standards beyond immediate self-will is more accurately classified as a form of nihilism or amoralism than as perfectionism of any kind.
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    • 1.Stirner celebrates the 'un-man' and the egoist as character ideals
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    • 2.These ideals do not derive their value from realising a fixed human nature
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    • 3.A perfectionism that values a character ideal without grounding it in human nature is anti-essentialist perfectionism
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