Some very quick research into the etymology of the concept of perfection reveals, as is usually the case, many possible origins.
But, as we with most of this sort of philosophical rambling, we end up back with the Greeks.
And I’m not talking Delta Tau Chi.
Isocrates had some ideas about it.
So too, Plato. Of course, he did.
A couple of meanings jumped out at me as I contemplate Louisville’s surprising and surprisingly easy 72-58 win over Mississippi State in the Bahamas late Thanksgiving night.
In one place I saw it described as “the action or process of improving something until it is faultless or as faultless as possible.