Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine of happiness, or the system of philosophy which makes human happiness its highest object, declaring that the production of happiness is the sole criterion for the validity of moral maxims; hedonism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being.
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- noun Alternative form of
eudaemonism .
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- noun an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason
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Examples
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Moreover, it may be thought that the primary moral principle of love of neighbor as oneself is another reason to doubt (despite appearances) the strategic role of eudemonism in his ethics.
Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Finnis, John 2005
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Here, then, is in brief Aristotle's ethical theory of eudemonism; and in its main features it has been made the basis of the chief
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Having never been happy myself, I am not a disciple of eudemonism; but I see life as struggle and change; and though I do not know what it means, I know thought will not be at rest, that hopes will not cease, and that dreams of liberty will fascinate the minds of future Lincolns and
Children of the Market Place Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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English moralism lingered in general in a state of capricious wavering between the principle of happiness and the principle of spiritual perfection, between the principle of subjective eudemonism and the principle of objective spiritualism.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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To make my own happiness the end of my moral activity-eudemonism-is irrational and immoral; for, because of the fortuity of the outward conditions of happiness, and of the heterogeneousness of claims upon happiness, the moral would be rendered dependent upon accident and. caprice.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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