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Single Idea 11333

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 3. Greek-English Lexicon]

Full Idea

Eudaimonia: flourishing, happiness, fulfilment

Gist of Idea

Eudaimonia: flourishing, happiness, fulfilment

Source

PG (Db (lexicon) [c.1001 BCE], 42)


A Reaction

Some people defend 'happiness' as the translation, but that seems to me wildly misleading, since eudaimonia is something like life going well, and certainly isn't a psychological state - and definitely not pleasure.