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- noun Alternative spelling of
eudemonia .
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- noun a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
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Examples
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Now that the economy limits our spending, we are lucky to have "eudaemonia" to find less expensive means to bliss.
Kay Goldstein: Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment 2009
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Aymee Coget, who wants to be the Suze Orman of happiness, handed out fliers for her 'Happiness Makeover,' a three-month route to 'sustainable eudaemonia.'
Kay Goldstein: Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment 2009
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Did you even know there was such a word as eudaemonia?
Kay Goldstein: Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment 2009
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"In this dopamine-laden city, where the pursuit of well-being is something of a high art, a motley array of scientists, philosophers, doctors, psychologists, navel-gazing Googlers and Tibetan Buddhists addressed the latest findings on the science of human happiness -- or eudaemonia, the classical Greek term for human flourishing."
Kay Goldstein: Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment 2009
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This “eudaemonia” is by no means one and the same with our notion of happiness, but includes the same in itself.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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In this dopamine-laden city, where the pursuit of well-being is something of a high art, a motley array of scientists, philosophers, doctors, psychologists, navel-gazing Googlers and Tibetan Buddhists addressed the latest findings on the science of human happiness - or eudaemonia, the classical Greek term for human flourishing.
idealawg 2008
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The drug, according to the Times, worked by bringing about a “state of well-being and happiness”—“eudaemonia,” the reporter called it, explaining that this was Greek for “Aristotle’s conception of a life of activity in accordance with reason as constituting human felicity.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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(eudaemonia, loosely translated as "happiness" but better understood as flourishing).
Rationally Speaking 2008
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Hence it is not without meaning when a special examination is entered upon as to whether the pleasure-feeling is included in the “eudaemonia” (Nic., i, c.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Happiness is only the one, the subjective phase, namely, the happiness-feeling that is connected with this “eudaemonia,’” whereas the
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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