Perfectionism

References and further reading

	Aristotle (c. mid 4th century) Nicomachean Ethics, trans. with notes by T. Irwin, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985. (Immensely influential version of narrow perfectionism.)
	Attfield, R. (1987) A Theory of Value and Obligation, London: Croom Helm. (Narrow perfectionism extended beyond humans to all living organisms.)
	Hurka, T. (1993) Perfectionism, New York: Oxford University Press. (Survey of narrow and broad perfectionism.)
	Marx, K. (1844) Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, in K. Marx and F. Engels, Collected Works, vol. 3, New York: International Publishers, 1975. (Outlines human perfection as productive, cooperative activity.)
	Moore, G.E. (1903) Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 6. (Expounds an elaborate objective theory of the good.)
	Nietzsche, F. (1886) Jenseits von Gut und Böse, trans. W. Kaufmann, Beyond Good and Evil, New York: Vintage Books, 1966. (Brazenly anti-egalitarian perfectionism.)
	Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, section 50. (Contains a liberal-egalitarian critique of perfectionism.)
	Raz, J. (1986) The Morality of Freedom, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Perfectionism in political philosophy, with autonomy as a central value.)