eudaemonics
nounEtymology Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονικός (eudaimonikós, “conducive to happiness”).
1
That part of ethics that deals with happiness; the science of happiness, contrasted with aretaics.
- the unideal form of eudæmonics of which I have spoken is hedonics , or a science of indolentia1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals: