Definition of Endaemonism

1. Noun. An ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason.

Exact synonyms: Eudemonism
Generic synonyms: Ethics, Moral Philosophy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endaemonism

end rhyme
end rhymes
end run
end stage
end state
end table
end times
end up
end user
end user license agreement
end users
end zone
end zones
endable
endadelphos
endaemonism (current term)
endamage
endamaged
endamagement
endamagements
endamages
endamaging
endameba
endamebae
endamebas
endamebic
endamnified
endamnify
endamoebae
endamoebas

Literary usage of Endaemonism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature: With an Outline of Some of by John Bernhard Stallo (1848)
"May the coming age bring us a mental, humanitarian endaemonism, and a universal ... national endaemonism of the Grecians with their limited freedom ! ..."

2. Introduction to Philosophy by Friedrich Paulsen (1895)
"... the different modes of conduct tend to produce; all of them explain ethics as the science of the highest good, which they all define as endaemonism. ..."

3. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Abu Al' Kasem Mohammed from Mecca made his appearance as a prophet in AD 611, and founded a mixed religion of arid Monotheism and sensual endaemonism drawn ..."

4. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1887)
"In place of the absolute value of morality, Kaftan sets up endaemonism. Not only does he find the origin of religion, as does also Hermann, ..."

5. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1902)
"On the other hand the egoism of unrestrained subjectivity puts itself forward in ethical endaemonism, e.tj. in that of the Epicureans; ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Endaemonism on Dictionary.com!Search for Endaemonism on Thesaurus.com!Search for Endaemonism on Google!Search for Endaemonism on Wikipedia!

Search