eudaemonia
Example Sentences
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The opponent of the eudaemonistic account of morality nearly always identifies it with a selfish pursuit, by each individual, of his own personal happiness.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
For it has been worn threadbare; and either alternative is equally consistent with a transcendental or with an eudaemonistic system of ethics, with a greatest happiness principle or with Kant's law of duty.
From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin
From the eudaemonistic standpoint, this is a very proper arrangement; as fame and youth are too much for a mortal at one and the same time.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
But their intellectualism was checked by the aesthetic and eudaemonistic element, and preserved from the one-sidedness which it manifests in the modern period, because of the lack of an effective counterpoise.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
It is of extreme importance, from a eudaemonistic standpoint, to cherish that ideal.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
