3/01/2006

Eudaimonism~幸福論


無意間查到這個字-Eudaemonia
對於"理性的積極生活是通往幸福之路"這句話
有些感動
很多人常常在想什麼才是幸福?
怎麼做才會得到幸福?
在查了wikipedia後,找到了幸福論

看了Aristotle的理論,有些感觸
至少目前,我想這麼的過下去
如此積極的活
不愧對良心的活
舒心的過活


以下是從偉大的維基百科上找到的Eudaemonia的衍伸定義^^
有兩種說法,一是Aristotle的,另一是Plato的
我把Plato的剪掉了,不過也很有意思呢!!

Eudaimonism is a philosophy that defines right action as that which leads to "well being." The concept originates in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. In Aristotle eudaimonism means that all correct actions lead to the greater well being of the individual human. By extending well being from the narrowest concerns to the largest, all social rules can be adduced. Augustine of Hippo adopted the concept as beatitudo, and Thomas Aquinas worked it out into a Christian ethical scheme. For Aquinas, well-being is found ultimately in a direct perception of God, or complete blessedness.

The word eudaimonism comes from the Greek word for happiness (eudaimonia), and refers to any conception of ethics that puts human happiness and the complete life of the individual at the center of ethical concern. This is solely a technical term and has no popular equivalent. Aristotle is the model eudaimonist, and really the founder of eudaimonism. By contrast, note that existentialism rejects happiness as a bourgeois fantasy, and that even Stoicism really turns its back on eudaimonism in Aristotle's sense.