eudaemonism
31eudemonism — eudemonist, n. eudemonistic, adj. eudemonistically, adv. /yooh dee meuh niz euhm/, n. Ethics. the doctrine that the basis of moral obligations is to be found in the tendency of right actions to produce happiness. Also, eudaemonism. [1820 30;… …
32Xenocrates — Xenocratic /zen euh krat ik/, Xenocratean, adj. /zeuh nok reuh teez /, n. 396 314 B.C., Greek philosopher. * * * died 314 BC, Athens Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, he succeeded Speusippus (d. 339/338 BC) as head of Plato s Academy. His… …
33virtue ethics — Approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived as excellence) as fundamental. Virtue ethics is primarily concerned with traits of character that are essential to human flourishing, not with the enumeration of duties. It falls …
34Leon Olle-Laprune — Léon Ollé Laprune † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Léon Ollé Laprune French Catholic philosopher, b. in 1839; d. at Paris, 19 Feb., 1898. Under the influence of the philosopher Caro and of Père Gratry s book Les Sources , Ollé Laprune, after …
35eudaemon — noun A good or benevolent spirit. See Also: eudaemonia, eudaemonic, eudaemonism …
36eudaemonistic — adjective Of or pertaining to eudaemonism …
37atomism — Synonyms and related words: Aristotelianism, Berkeleianism, Bohr theory, Bradleianism, Cynicism, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Dirac theory, Epicureanism, Fichteanism, Hegelianism, Heideggerianism, Heracliteanism, Herbartianism, Humism,… …
38epicureanism — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, aesthetics, appetite, appetitiveness, artistic taste, connoisseurship, dilettantism, epicurism, ethical hedonism, eudaemonism, expertise, expertism, friandise, gastronomics, gastronomy,… …
39hedonism — Synonyms and related words: Christian ethics, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Stoicism, altruistic ethics, appetite, appetitiveness, aretaics, casuistry, categorical imperative, comparative ethics, deontology, egoistic ethics, empiricism,… …
40philosophy — Synonyms and related words: Aristotelianism, Berkeleianism, Bradleianism, Buddha like composure, Cynicism, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Epicureanism, Fichteanism, Hegelianism, Heideggerianism, Heracliteanism, Herbartianism, Humism, Kantianism …
