Eudaimonia is essentially epicurian hedonism, as contrasted with cyrenaic.
I think we’re better to follow Aristotle than Epicurus in defining eudaimonia. It’s at least the primary way the word is used now. Being a good human is just not a sort of pleasure.
This is simply not true. Eudaimonia is essentially epicurian hedonism, as contrasted with cyrenaic.
Looking only at the wiki page, epicurian moral thought doesn’t look like what I remember from reading Aristotle’s Ethics. But it’s been a while.
I think we’re better to follow Aristotle than Epicurus in defining eudaimonia. It’s at least the primary way the word is used now. Being a good human is just not a sort of pleasure.