Who Wrote the Eudaimonia?

The concept of Eudaimonia comes from 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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, his philosophical work on the 'science of happiness' (Irwin, 2012).

Who came up with eudaimonia?

The closest English word for the Ancient Greek term eudaimonia is probably “flourishing”. The philosopher Aristotle used it as a broad concept to describe the highest good humans could strive toward – or a life 'well lived'.

Who created Eudaimonic happiness?

Aristotle proposed the concept of eudaimonia (pronounced as u-day-monia) in the 4th century B.C. in his Nicomachean Ethics.

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