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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Eudaemonism
Britannica 11thEUDAEMONISM (from Or. euScujiofia, literally the state of being under the protection of a benign spirit, a " good genius "), in ethics, the name applied to theories of morality which find the chief good of man in some form of happiness. The term Eudaemonia has ...
Vol. 9, pp. 881-881
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Eucratides
Britannica 11th... ratides fled with 300 men into a fortress and was besieged. But at last he beat EUDAEMONISM— EUDOCIA MACREMBOLITISSA Demetrius, and conquered a great part of western India. According to ApolKxlorus of Artemita, the historian of the 1'arthians, he ruled over 10 ...
Vol. 9, pp. 880-880
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Summum Bonum
Britannica 11th... may be viewed as a perfect moral state: as pleasure or happiness (see HEDONISM; EUDAEMONISM) ; as physical perfection; as wealth, and so forth. If, however, we abandon intuitional ethics, it is reasonable to argue that the term summum bonum ceases to have any ...
Vol. 26, pp. 81-81
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