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Definition of Eudaemonism
1. Noun. A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality. (Not to be confused with utilitarianism, which similarly emphasizes happiness but conceives of it differently.) ¹
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Definition of Eudaemonism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eudaemonism
Literary usage of Eudaemonism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1898)
"Transition to eudaemonism.—In Rationalism, therefore, no more than in Hedonism,
do we find the final ethical theory. Reason must indeed be the governing ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The eudaemonism of Aristotle was a theory which placed the chief good in an ...
Thus the term eudaemonism, in modern philosophy, is almost universally used ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The eudaemonism of Aristotle was a theory which placed the chief good in an ...
Thus the term eudaemonism, in modern philosophy, is almost universally used ..."
4. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1887)
"He on the contrary who rejects eudaemonism as a moral principle, as Hart- maim
does, and places the meaning and the value of the life of the individual in ..."
5. Christian Ethics, Or, The True Moral Manhood and Life of Duty: A Text-book by Daniel Seely Gregory (1880)
"Private eudaemonism, or self-interest — which regards the happiness or ...
Refined Self-interest, or the Old eudaemonism.— In this view happiness 9 O ..."
6. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"The eudaemonism of Sudermann, far more marked than that of his master Ibsen, is
likewise characterized by a more vivid spirit of revolution, ..."
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