What's in a name? - What is the significance of your Gulch pseudonym?

Posted by Eudaimonia 12 years, 8 months ago to Philosophy
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Some of us, like myself, opt to post under a pseudonym.
However, being Objectivists, for the most part, those pseudonyms in all likelihood mean something specific to the wielder.

So, what's your psuedonym's deeper meaning?

I'll start:

Eudaimonia - (from wiktionary's entry on eudemonia - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eudemonia#...) - A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality.

Eudaimonia, to me is a state of flourishing as a result of rational self-interest.

I first came across the term in a philosophy class titled "Ethical Individualism".

Eudaimonia, to me, is a goal which can best be summed up with the phrase "the good life".

"The good life", in fact, is my standard drinking toast.


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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And that's when the angels strummed their harps and the trumpets of Galilee began to play while the cherubs danced the dance of love forever more.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I took this course once in undergraduate school. Critical thinking. it was really about what professors were writing and the rules they used to further their thesis's. I said to a friend, "the graduate student's are throwing the ball around and I'm not tall enough to go after it." my friend, later, my husband, said "use reason and cut them off at the knees."
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  • Posted by Wonky 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You both seem to be flying... flying well over my head... What am I missing? I didn't read much of MM's stuff. He seemed like a frequent contributor, but he seems to have vanished.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh..is that what happened??...I thought I was just getting old. Yeah..hey!..Where's my feathers!??
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  • Posted by Wonky 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's a moot point now. All of his posts/comments were hidden for a while (beginning Thursday/Friday if I recall). They are back now.
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