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Definition of Endaemonism
1. Noun. An ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endaemonism
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; ..."
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