Also 9 eudaimonism. [f. Gr. εὐδαιμονία happiness (f. εὐδαίμων happy, f. εὐ- EU- + δαίμων guardian genius: see DEMON) + -ISM.]
That system of ethics which finds the foundation of moral obligation in the tendency of actions to produce happiness.
1827. De Quincey, Last Days Kant, Wks. 1862, III. 101, note. Ethics, braced up into stoical vigour by renouncing all effeminate dallyings with Eudæmonism.
1839. Blackw. Mag., XLV. 845. In England men were satisfying themselves … with the unveiled eudæmonism of Paley.
1866. Ferrier, Grk. Philos., I. xi. 277. Eudaimonism, or the philosophy of happiness.
1876. M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma, 47. But we English are taunted with our proneness to an unworthy eudæmonism.
