eudemonism, eudæmonism (udemonizm)

[ Ethics braced up into stoical vigour by renouncing all effeminate dallyings with Eudæmonism would indirectly have co-operated with the sublime ideals of Christianity. De Quincey, Last Days of Kant. The discu ion of the different sorts, degrees, and consequences of enjoyment led to the true eudæmonism of the Epicureans, who taught that mental pleasure was preferable to that of the senses, and that friendship, and freedom from pa ion and desire, were the supreme forms of G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 179. happine .