eudemonism
noun
the doctrine that the basis of moral obligations is to be found in the tendency of right actions to produce happiness.
eudemonistic
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a word derived from
eudemonism.
Example Sentences
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Theonomic ethics, egoistic ethics, the ethics of sympathy, and the ethics of perfection are all eudemonistic, and hence heteronomic.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
It is completed by the eudemonistic conclusion of the system.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
This assertion, easily refuted, has seemed to some opponents of the eudemonistic account of morality so bound up with it as to involve its downfall.
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
Hence with the Illumination he rejects the imperative form, and with Kant the eudemonistic end.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Our account of morality may be called the eudemonistic account, from the Greek eudemonia, happiness, or the teleological account, from telos, an end.
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
