eudaemonistic

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From eudaemon +‎ -istic.

Adjective

eudaemonistic (comparative more eudaemonistic, superlative most eudaemonistic)

  1. Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
    • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish):
      Interpreting humanity in purely zoological categories, he saw the social community as a form of natural co-operation within the species, distorted or depraved by religious prejudice, while in moral speculation he did not advance beyond the eudaemonistic schema of the Enlightenment.
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