Eudaemonia Definition

Eudaemonia Sentence Examples

• Among the ancients the Epicureans expressed all eudaemonia in terms of pleasure.

• The fundametal difficulty which confronts those who would distinguish between pleasure and eudaemonia is that all pleasure is ultimately a mental phenomenon, whether it be roused by food, music, doing a moral action or committing a theft.

• The term Eudaemonia has been taken in a large number of senses, with consequent variations in the meaning of Eudaemonism.

• Aristotle, as usual, adopted "eudaemonia" as the term which in popular language most nearly represented his idea and made it the keyword of his ethical doctrine.

• Aristotle further held that the good man in achieving virtue must experience pleasure (iiSov17), which is, therefore, not the same as, but the sequel to or concomitant of eudaemonia.