Belief in living 'the good life'
Synonyms
Examples for "eudemonistic"
Examples for "eudemonistic"
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Hence with the Illumination he rejects the imperative form, and with Kant the eudemonistic end.
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Our account of morality may be called the eudemonistic account, from the Greek eudemonia, happiness, or the teleological account, from telos, an end.
3
This assertion, easily refuted, has seemed to some opponents of the eudemonistic account of morality so bound up with it as to involve its downfall.
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Kant is an uncompromising opponent of eudaemonism.
2
With this old pagan eudaemonism the sage of the Rubaiyat has quite as little to do as he has with any Christian variety.
3
"Well, but in Cocaigne," said Jurgen, "this eudæmonism was considered an indoor diversion."
4
But she too looked annoyed, and Jurgen reflected that it was probably not the custom of oreads to be rescued from the eudæmonism of satyrs.
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In France the atmosphere is emphatically eudaemonic; happiness is the goal.
2
The course of development is determined by intellectual ideas, and he treats these as independent of, and indifferent to, eudaemonic motives.
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Aristotle talked about "eudaimonia" -happiness as human flourishing and purpose to life -rather than the modern hedonistic concept.
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Our account of morality may be called the eudemonistic account, from the Greek eudemonia, happiness, or the teleological account, from telos, an end.
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It is of extreme importance, from a eudaemonistic standpoint, to cherish that ideal.
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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.