eudaemonic

Oak Ridger Henry Feldman, 13 years old at the time, correctly spelled "eudaemonic," and thereby won over runner-up Betty Jean Altschul, 12, of Norfolk, Va.

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He has to engage in mental gymnastics in order to argue the case for the social engineering of conditions such that what he terms ‘eudaemonic’ types are preserved.

What is Human Wisdom?: An Interrogation of Posthuman Futures in Transhuman Evolutionary Discourse By Celia Deane-Drummond William Harryman 2009

He does not understand that an educational system can be a eudaemonic triumph even if it encourages disciplines that add not a penny to national output.

Boris socks it to the Puritans 2008

Afterwards, you are free to return to your customary relativistic eudaemonic ways, savoring martinis spiced with the chilled blood of baby seals.

Do Good Things Sean 2007

Voltaire in his way, had traced the growth of civilisation; the originality of Chastellux lay in concentrating attention on the eudaemonic issue, in examining each historical period for the purpose of discovering whether people on the whole were happy and enviable.

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

Yet we need not limit the scope of his statement when we remember that as a sect the Economists assumed as their first principle the eudaemonic value of civilisation, declared that temporal happiness is attainable, and threw all their weight into the scales against the doctrine of

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

Both alike explained history by the nature of mind which necessarily determined the stages of the process; Vico as little as Fichte or Hegel took eudaemonic considerations into account.

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

In France the atmosphere is emphatically eudaemonic; happiness is the goal.

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

Condorcet and his predecessors regarded it exclusively from the eudaemonic point of view.

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

[Footnote: Huxley considers progress exclusively from an ethical, not from an eudaemonic point of view.]

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894