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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 Drake, Durant

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 Falckenberg, Richard

It is completed by the eudemonistic conclusion of the system.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

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 Falckenberg, Richard

I admit Bushido had its esoteric and exoteric teachings; these were eudemonistic, looking after the welfare and happiness of the commonalty, while those were aretaic, emphasizing the practice of virtues for their own sake.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo