Eudemonistic

Our account of morality may be called the eudemonistic account, from the Greek eudemonia, happiness, or the teleological account, from telos, an end. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)

This assertion, easily refuted, has seemed to some opponents of the eudemonistic account of morality so bound up with it as to involve its downfall. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)

If any eudemonistic moralists have lived loosely, it was because they did not realize what really makes for happiness or had not strength of will to cleave to it, not because they saw happiness as the criterion. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)

The classic statement of this erroneous psychology, which has been the source of much satisfaction to anti-eudemonistic philosophers, is to be found in the fourth chapter of Mill's Utilitarianism. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)

Their system is neither strictly deontologico-rational, nor yet altogether eudemonistic, but a consistent blending of both. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He terms this theory the eudemonistic theory, and we are left wondering why, when he had this theory all cut and dried in his mind, he should all the same give himself the immense trouble of compiling his tables and of enumerating his laws and principles, which do not agree with his theory. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

The “eudemonistic” tendency could oppose nothing else to the frivolous enjoyment-seeking and conscienceless self-seeking of the materialistic tendency, than an insipid utilitarian morality essentially identical at bottom with the other, and which differed from it only by an air of external decency, but not by profundity of thought or moral worthiness. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)

“eudemonistic” view proper, that of the Epicureans, is evidently immoral, as it rests on mere self-love. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)

Stylites on his pillar or Tiberius at Caprae or A Kempis in his cell or of Nelson in the cockpit of the Victory. "] have been a stumbling-block to many, we must pause to note their inaccuracy, while insisting that they are no part of a sound utilitarian, or eudemonistic, theory. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)