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单词 eudemonism
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eudemonismeudaemonismn.

Brit. /juːˈdiːmənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /juˈdiməˌnɪzəm/
Forms: Also 1800s eudaimonism.
Etymology: < Greek εὐδαιμονία happiness ( < εὐδαίμων happy, < εὐ- eu- comb. form + δαίμων guardian genius: see demon n.) + -ism suffix.
That system of ethics which finds the foundation of moral obligation in the tendency of actions to produce happiness.
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1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 845 In England men were satisfying themselves..with the unveiled eudæmonism of Paley.
1854 T. De Quincey Last Days Kant (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay III. 101 Ethics, braced up into stoical vigour by renouncing all effeminate dallyings with Eudæmonism.
1866 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. I. xi. 277 Eudaimonism, or the philosophy of happiness.
1876 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (ed. 5) i. 47 We English are taunted with our proneness to an unworthy eudæmonism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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