Eudaimonia is the Greek word for human flourishing (eu, well-being; daimon, guardian spirit or ‘inner self’). It is linked philosophically with Aristotle, especially his Nicomachean Ethics, for whom it was the highest good.

A eudaimonistic (or eudaimonic) society is one without relations of oppression, domination and exploitation, where ‘the free flourishing of each is the condition for the free flourishing of all’. This quote is taken from Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality, who borrowed it from Marx. It is a society towards which humanity is arguably striving to reach, one in which the unique singularity (or dharma) of every being can be realised and freely flourish. This would involve the building of social structures and institutions that would foster such realisation and human flourishing and impede oppressive relations. While we are very far from such a state of affairs, we believe that such a society, or reality, is possible and in fact already present in the absolute realm of nonduality that sustains and underpins the relative world of duality. The former is going through a slow and difficult process of manifesting itself in the latter, and we can all play our own small part in facilitating such a move.