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Definition of Eudaimonia

1. Noun. A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous. "The town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles"

Definition of Eudaimonia

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of eudemonia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Eudaimonia

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

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Owing to the variance between the Aristotelian meaning of eudaimonia and the modern ... The hedonistic interpretation of what constitutes eudaimonia, ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Owing to the variance between the Aristotelian meaning of eudaimonia and the modern ... The hedonistic interpretation of what constitutes eudaimonia, ..."

3. Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of by William Sandys Wright Vaux (1851)
"Between this figure and eudaimonia, is a laurel-tree, and, behind him, a female figure, over whose head is the word "kale," "she is beautiful. ..."

4. A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum by Samuel Birch, Charles Thomas Newton (1870)
"... "eudaimonia,"or "happiness," and a festoon of myrtle hanging up ; a winged Eros is flying towards the back of her head; on her left stands Pan- ..."

5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1879)
"Just translate the binomial, eudaimonia Jeho-cah, the beautiful female demon Jehovah • I suppose ..."

6. Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics by John Dewey (1891)
"According to him the end of conduct is eudaimonia, success, welfare, ... But eudaimonia is found not in pleasure, but in the fulfillment of human powers and ..."

7. Science and Social Progress: A Philosophical Introduction to Moral Science by Herbert Wallace Schneider (1920)
"And when Aristotle discussed " social well-being," eudaimonia, as the end of social life, the term meant something concrete and well-defined to Aristotle's ..."

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