eudemonisteudaemonistn.
/juːˈdiːmənɪst/, U.S. /juˈdimənəst/ One who believes in eudemonism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > hedonism > [noun] > eudaemonism and its adherents
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a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 273 Yet this is the common argumentum in circulo, in which the eudæmonists flee and pursue.
1840 Q. Rev. 65 494 The enlightened Eudæmonist..by his first maxim necessarily excludes the idea of a divine revelation.
1866 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. I. xi. 292–3 The utilitarians or Eudaimonists define the good as centring in happiness.
1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 48 He [De Quincey] described himself as a Eudæmonist.
Derivatives
eudemoˈnistic adj. of or pertaining to eudemonism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > hedonism > [adjective] > of or relating to eudaemonism
eudemonistic1855
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1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 67 Whence come these religious considerations which are so completely to modify our Eudaimonistic ethics.
1866 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. I. xi. 283 Socrates..had strong utilitarian, even eudaimonistic, tendencies.
eudemoˈnistical adj. = eudemonistic adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > hedonism > [adjective] > of or relating to eudaemonism
eudemonistic1855
eudemonistical1884
1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. III. ii. 1707/3 Eudæmonistic.
1936 C. Cole I remember, I Remember xiii. 86 Perhaps I ought to stand up and repeat all the encomiastical and eudemonistical things that have been said about a beloved teacher who [etc.].
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