eudemonia \yoo-di-MOH-nee-uh\,
noun:
1. Happiness; well-being.
2. Aristotelianism.
Happiness as the result of an active life governed by reason.
We all seek eudemonia, but he thinks that it takes a great deal of reflection and education to get a clear enough conception of it really to aim at it in our practice.
-- Robert Campbell Roberts, "Intellectual Virtues"
They may have believed that we already do value duty, utility, and eudemonia, but it is debatable whether they need to make such descriptive claims.
-- Jesse J. Prinz, "The Emotional Construction of Morals"
From Aristotle, eudemonia comes from the Greek word eudaímōn which meant "a good or benevolent spirit."
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