Oak Ridger Henry Feldman, 13 years old at the time, correctly spelled "eudaemonic," and thereby won over runner-up Betty Jean Altschul, 12, of Norfolk, Va. From Wordnik.com. [The Oak Ridger Home RSS] Reference
Afterwards, you are free to return to your customary relativistic eudaemonic ways, savoring martinis spiced with the chilled blood of baby seals. From Wordnik.com. [Do Good Things] Reference
He does not understand that an educational system can be a eudaemonic triumph even if it encourages disciplines that add not a penny to national output. From Wordnik.com. [Boris socks it to the Puritans] Reference
He has to engage in mental gymnastics in order to argue the case for the social engineering of conditions such that what he terms ‘eudaemonic’ types are preserved. From Wordnik.com. [What is Human Wisdom?: An Interrogation of Posthuman Futures in Transhuman Evolutionary Discourse By Celia Deane-Drummond] Reference
Yet others look to the Greeks and eudaemonic ethics. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
In France the atmosphere is emphatically eudaemonic; happiness is the goal. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
Condorcet and his predecessors regarded it exclusively from the eudaemonic point of view. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
The course of development is determined by intellectual ideas, and he treats these as independent of, and indifferent to, eudaemonic motives. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
Both alike explained history by the nature of mind which necessarily determined the stages of the process; Vico as little as Fichte or Hegel took eudaemonic considerations into account. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
Voltaire in his way, had traced the growth of civilisation; the originality of Chastellux lay in concentrating attention on the eudaemonic issue, in examining each historical period for the purpose of discovering whether people on the whole were happy and enviable. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
Yet we need not limit the scope of his statement when we remember that as a sect the Economists assumed as their first principle the eudaemonic value of civilisation, declared that temporal happiness is attainable, and threw all their weight into the scales against the doctrine of. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
It is, however, his analysis of the salient features of the Jamaican worldview that drew my attention: "The belief in the mystical power of the spoken word; the related belief in the eudaemonic power of music; the belief that divine rewards and punishments will be meted out in this life, and the conviction that all things are religious". From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot] Reference
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