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Eudaemonism   Listen
noun
Eudaemonism, Eudemonism  n.  That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Eudaemonism" Quotes from Famous Books



... insight in the critical taste of thinking men which furnished the death-blow to rationalism. The same remark is true of the effects of the philosophy of Kant.(711) Its ultimate result was valuable in removing the eudaemonism common in ethics, and turning men's attention to the moral law within. But its immediate effects were to reinforce the appeal to reason, and to destroy revelation by leaving ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar



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