Citations:eudæmonia

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 * 1894, S. Alexander, Book Reviews, in Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy, University of Chicago Press; volume IV, page #125:
 * As to Mr. Stewart’s treatment of the main ethical ideas, one turns naturally to the notes on Eudæmonia, on the Will, on the Mean, as Theoria, and the like, in which he endeavors to bring out the full philosophical significance of these conceptions.
 * 1895, Thomas Wharton, The Last Sonnet Of Prinzivalle Di Cembino., in The Harper’s Magazine; volume XCII, page #128:
 * She never seemed to err ; she did not waver or change; her beauty never faded ; grief, care, sickness, fatigue, made no impress upon her ; she might be mortal, but she showed no trace of mortality. Was not this a eudæmonia ?
 * 1899, Frank Thilly and Friedrich Paulsen, A System of Ethics, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & CO., Ltd; fourth edition, book I, chapter I, page #56:
 * Epicurus,1 too, and his disciples are in search of the highest good and find it in eudæmonia ; but their definition of it differs from that of the philosophers mentioned above, nay, even from the popular Greek conception : for them eudæmonia is a feeling of pleasure.
 * 1900, Cyrenus Osborne Ward, The Ancient Lowly, Charles H. Kerr; volume II, chapter VI, page #109:
 * Man had been thankless and God cursed the very region of his creation and submerged it in the depths, so that the locality of the original eudæmonia is lost in the oneiromantic mists of doubt.