eudaemonia

Sherman said that Aristotle was all about eudaemonia.

A meditation on “eudaemonia,” or “the good life,” it belongs, frothily, to Mee’s cycle of Heaven on Earth plays.

Fredrickson believed that hedonism would prove more favorable than eudaemonia—that discrete feelings of happiness would register on the genome more powerfully than abstract notions of meaning and purpose.

Being a parent, participating in the creative arts or even taking up exercise so that you can live to see your grandchildren may ease you toward eudaemonia, he says.

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.