Volume 5, Number 2
October 2011
DISCUSSION

Colburn on Anti-Perfectionism and Autonomy

Volume 5, Number 2, October 2011, Pages 1–8
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v5i2.144
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Abstract

I argue against the strategy recently proposed by Ben Colburn for reconciling two apparently conflicting theses, the “Autonomy Claim” and “Anti-Perfectionism.” The strategy turns on demonstrating that the conception of Anti-Perfectionism that captures the intuitions of most anti-perfectionists is not opposed to state promotion of what Colburn calls “second-order values,” and that autonomy is just such a value. I object that Anti-Perfectionism should be understood as opposed to some second-order values, and that autonomy is just such a value.
Copyright © 2011 Thomas Porter
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