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In a message dated 10/4/2007 6:31:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
battr at medizin.uni-leipzig.de writes:

Tea,  Ben  and other philosophers:

Read "Perfection and perfectibility"  by John Passmore, (Canberra 1999), an
australian philosopher. I enjoyed it.  A lot of Platon, Aristoteles, religion
and so on. There are a lot of  definitions.
See page 15: The early greaks would not allow even the gods to  be perfect,
but Christianity took God to be so.
Aristtotle said every  form of activity is directed towards an end, teleios=
perfect, telos =  end.
>From the Latin perficere: from facere= to make and per=  thoroughly.
Perfect = thoroughly made, completed.
Technical perfection  is performing a specialized task with the maximum  of
efficiency.
Roberto




A teacher in my school once set a Physics test with 102 questions. By good  
luck I got them all right. He gave me a mark of 99%. I asked him why not 100%?  
He replied "Nobody is perfect". 
Bob



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