different between eudaemonism vs eudemonia

English

Alternative forms

• eudemonism, eudaimonism, eudomonism

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (eudaím?n, “having a good genius, happy, fortunate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??di?m?n?z?m/

Noun

eudaemonism (countable and uncountable, plural eudaemonisms)

1. A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality. (Not to be confused with utilitarianism, which similarly emphasizes happiness but conceives of it differently.)

Related terms

References

• eudaemonism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• eudaemonism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Eudaemonism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

English

Alternative forms

• eudaemonia, eudæmonia
• eudaimonia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (eudaimonía), from ??- (eu-, “good”) + ?????? (daím?n, “spirit, genius, demon”) + -?? (-ía, “feminine abstract substantive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?d??m??n??/

Noun

eudemonia (uncountable)

1. Happiness, well-being.
2. (philosophy) A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality.

Related terms

• eudaemon
• eudaemonic
• eudaemonism

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050105215630/http://www.ece.uncc.edu/succeed/journals/PDF-files/tte2-15.pdf
• http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html