Eudaemonology

Eudaemonology ( Greek ευδαίμων ['happy'] + λόγος ['teaching']) is a term coined in 1851 by Arthur Schopenhauer .

I take the concept of life wisdom here entirely in the immanent sense, namely in that of the art of living life as pleasantly and happily as possible, the instruction to which could also be called eudaemonology: it would therefore be the instruction to a happy existence.

Schopenhauer defines happiness in his main work Die Welt as will and imagination as a negative, as the absence of unhappiness. Hence, satisfaction or happiness can never be more than liberation from pain, from distress. Schopenhauer names the third cause of unhappiness the deadening boredom, which makes our existence a burden.

See also

• Eudaimonia
• Eudaemonism
• Happiness research

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aphorisms on wisdom . In: "Parerga and Paralipomena: small philosophical writings.", Volume I. - Berlin: AW Hayn 1851, p. 299
2. ↑ ^{a b} Arthur Schopenhauer: The world as will and conception: four books, together with an appendix, which contains the criticism of the Kantian philosophy . Leipzig, FA Brockhaus 1819, p. 459.