Alliance was founded in 1854 by the merger of three smaller communities called Williamsport (formed in 1827), Freedom (formed in 1838), and Liberty (formed in 1850). A fourth community, Mount Union, was added in 1888. Alliance was incorporated as a city in 1889.
For other uses, see Eudaemon (disambiguation). Eudaimonia (Greek: Îµá½Î´Î±Î¹Î¼Î¿Î½Î¯Î± [euÌ¯daiÌ¯mo'nÃ­aË]), sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia /juËdáµ»ËmoÊniÉ/, is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare; however, human flourishing has been proposed as a more accurate translation. Etymologically, it consists of the words eu (good) and daimÅn (spirit).
Note that eudaimonia, the term we translate as happiness, is for Aristotle an activity rather than an emotion or a state. Thus understood, the happy life is the good life, that is, a life in which a person fulfills human nature in an excellent way.