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eudemonist, -dæmonist|juːˈdiːmənɪst|
Also -daimonist.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One who believes in eudemonism.
1818Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 273 Yet this is the common argumentum in circulo in which the eudæmonists flee and pursue. 1840Q. Rev. LXV. 494 The enlightened Eudæmonist..by his first maxim necessarily excludes the idea of a divine revelation. 1866Ferrier Grk. Philos. I. xi. 292–3 The utilitarians or Eudaimonists define the good as centring in happiness. 1872W. Minto Eng. Lit. i. i. 48 He [De Quincey] described himself as a Eudæmonist.
Hence eudemoˈnistic a., of or pertaining to eudemonism. eudemoˈnistical a. = prec.
1855Ess. Intuitive Morals 67 Whence come these religious considerations which are so completely to modify our Eudaimonistic ethics. 1866Ferrier Grk. Philos. I. xi. 283 Socrates..had strong utilitarian, even eudaimonistic, tendencies. 1881Mod. Rev. Oct. 718 We reject the Israelitish morals as eudæmonistical. |