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- noun A supporter of
eudaemonism .
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Examples
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C. P. Snow The Masters, 171From the eudaemonist, who footnotes as follows:
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Like one eudaemonist, I can't help but marvel at your endurance.
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Now, says the eudaemonist, this delight, this happiness, is the real motive of his acting virtuously.
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics Immanuel Kant 1764
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In a eudaemonist-individualist moral vision, each individual has a unique and irreplaceable worth and a responsibility to develop the capacities and actualize the potentialities unique to every individual human being.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists Chris Cathcart 2010
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I gave the example of the possibility of an intra-personal conflict of interests not because it's a problem for the eudaemonist thesis, but because it strengthens the case for the possibility of an interpersonal conflict of interests (as I interpret or interpreted it).
Cato Unbound Neera K. Badhwar 2010
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˜intellectualist™ and ˜eudaemonist™ virtue ethics.
Philo of Larissa Brittain, Charles 2006
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- personal conflict should be considered a problem for the eudaemonist thesis.
Cato Unbound 2010
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