Who Came up with Eudaimonism?

History of Eudaimonism
The concept came to fruition in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's ethics, or study of character, is built around the premise that people should achieve an excellent character (a virtuous character, "ethikē aretē" in Greek) as a pre-condition for attaining happiness or well-being (eudaimonia).
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", which dates from the 4th Century B.C., although the earlier thinkers Democritus, Socrates and Plato described a very similar idea.

Who created eudaimonia?

Eudaimonia is an Ancient Greek word, particularly emphasised by the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, that deserves wider currency because it corrects the shortfalls in one of the most central, governing but insufficient terms in our contemporary idiom: happiness.

Where does Aristotle talk about eudaimonia?

In his Nicomachean Ethics (1095a15–22) Aristotle says that eudaimonia means 'doing and living well'. It is significant that synonyms for eudaimonia are living well and doing well. On the standard English translation, this would be to say that 'happiness is doing well and living well'.

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