Eudaemonism Definition

yo͝odēmənizəm
noun
The ethical doctrine that personal happiness is the chief good and the proper aim of action, esp. such happiness conceived of in terms of well-being based on virtuous and rational self-realization.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Eudaemonism

Noun

Singular:
eudaemonism
Plural:
eudaemonisms

Origin of Eudaemonism

  • From Ancient Greek εὐδαίμων (eudaimōn, “having a good genius, happy, fortunate”), from εὖ (eu, “well”) + δαίμων (daimōn, “a genius, spirit”)

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Eudaemonism Sentence Examples

  • On the other hand attempts have been made to separate hedonism, as the search for a continuous series of physical pleasures, from eudaemonism, a condition of enduring mental satisfaction.

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

  • Among modern writers, James Seth (Ethical Princ., 1894) resumes Aristotle's position, and places Eudaemonism as the mean between the Ethics of Sensibility (hedonism) and the Ethics of Rationality, each of which overlooks the complex character of human life.

  • The value of the term Eudaemonism as an antithesis to Hedonism is thus very questionable.

  • It is true that pleasure is the summum bonum of Epicurus, but his conception of that pleasure is profoundly modified by the Socratic doctrine of prudence and the eudaemonism of Aristotle.

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