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eudemonism, -dæmonism|juːˈdiːmənɪz(ə)m|
Also 9 eudaimonism.
[f. Gr. εὐδαιµονία happiness (f. εὐδαίµων happy, f. εὐ- eu- + δαίµων guardian genius: see demon1) + -ism.]
That system of ethics which finds the foundation of moral obligation in the tendency of actions to produce happiness.
1827De Quincey Last Days Kant Wks. 1862 III. 101 note, Ethics, braced up into stoical vigour by renouncing all effeminate dallyings with Eudæmonism. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 845 In England men were satisfying themselves..with the unveiled eudæmonism of Paley. 1866Ferrier Grk. Philos. I. xi. 277 Eudaimonism, or the philosophy of happiness. 1876M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 47 We English are taunted with our proneness to an unworthy eudæmonism. |