eudaemonism

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Kant is an uncompromising opponent of eudaemonism.

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  • If this distinction is not observed; if eudaemonism (the principle of happiness) is adopted as the principle instead of eleutheronomy (the principle of freedom of the inner legislation), the consequence is the euthanasia (quiet death) of all morality PREFACE ^paragraph 10 The cause of these mistakes is no other than the following: Those who are accustomed only to physiological explanations will not admit into their heads the categorical imperative from which these laws dictatorially proceed, notwithstanding that they feel themselves irresistibly forced by it. —  The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
  • Whether it be hedonism, pessimism, utilitarianism, or eudaemonism, all those modes of thinking which measure the worth of things according to PLEASURE and PAIN, that is, according to accompanying circumstances and secondary considerations, are plausible modes of thought and naivetes, which every one conscious of CREATIVE powers and an artist's conscience will look down upon with scorn, though not without sympathy. —  Beyond Good and Evil
  • Kant is an uncompromising opponent of eudaemonism. —  The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth
  • With this old pagan eudaemonism the sage of the Rubaiyat has quite as little to do as he has with any Christian variety. —  Heretics
  • If this distinction is not observed; if eudaemonism (the principle of happiness) is adopted as the principle instead of eleutheronomy (the principle of freedom of the inner legislation), the consequence is the euthanasia (quiet death) of all morality. —  The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
 

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