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Definition of Eudemonic
1. Adjective. Producing happiness and well-being.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eudemonic
Literary usage of Eudemonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Metaphysics: Or, the Science of Perception by John Miller (1904)
"But emotion has other aspects beside the eudemonic, viz. the ethical aspect, ...
Though they be all eudemonic; that is, emotions always of either pleasure ..."
2. Systems of Ethics by Aaron Schuyler (1902)
"(2) eudemonic egoism.—The good recognized by egoistic utilitarians is not solely
the sensation of pleasure, a mere feeling of the sensibility, ..."
3. Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought by Inazō Nitobe (1905)
"I admit Bushido had its esoteric and exoteric teachings; these were eudemonic,
looking after the welfare and happiness of the commonalty; ..."
4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1870)
"Everything warns us to give implicit obedience to reason, freedom, God, unless
we are willing, by fastidious, eudemonic irrationality to involve ourselves ..."
5. Comparative Legal Philosophy Applied to Legal Institutions by Luigi Miraglia (1912)
"The former are of an essentially moral, and the latter of an eudemonic nature
but influenced by its relation with moral law, in which law is subordinate to ..."
6. Education as Adjustment: Educational Theory Viewed in the Light of by Micheal Vincent O'Shea (1910)
"... if not impossible, to discern exactly the purport of many acts, still those
we can trace are always headed in the direction of the eudemonic goal, ..."
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