Also -daimonist. [f. as prec. + -IST.] One who believes in eudemonism.
1818. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), I. 273. Yet this is the common argumentum in circulo in which the eudæmonists flee and pursue.
1840. Q. Rev., LXV. 494. The enlightened Eudæmonist … by his first maxim necessarily excludes the idea of a divine revelation.
1866. Ferrier, Grk. Philos., I. xi. 292–3. The utilitarians or Eudaimonists define the good as centring in happiness.
1872. Minto, Eng. Lit., I. i. 48. He [De Quincey] described himself as a Eudæmonist.
Hence Eudemonistic a., of or pertaining to eudemonism. Eudemonistical a. = prec.
1855. [Miss Cobbe], Ess. Intuitive Morals, 67. Whence come these religious considerations which are so completely to modify our Eudaimonistic ethics…?
1866. Ferrier, Grk. Philos., I. xi. 283. Socrates … had strong utilitarian, even eudaimonistic, tendencies.
1881. Mod. Rev., Oct., 718. We reject the Israelitish morals as eudæmonistical.
