Word of the Day for Thursday, March 29, 2012
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."
eudemonia\ YOO-DI-衛生部-NEE-UH\,名詞:
1。幸福;福祉。
2。亞里士多德。作為結果的原因管轄的一個積極的生活幸福。
我們所有尋求eudemonia,但他認為,它需要很大的反思和教育真正得到足夠明確的概念,在它的目標在我們的實踐。
- 羅伯特·坎貝爾·羅伯茨,智慧的美德
他們可能認為,我們已經這樣做值稅,實用,eudemonia,但他們是否需要做出這樣的描述索賠,這是值得商榷的。
- 傑西·普林茨,情感道德建設
從亞里士多德,eudemonia來。“一個好的或王道精神”這意味著,從希臘字eudaímōn的
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