THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS – INDIVIDUAL RIGHT OR DIVINE GIFT
THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS – INDIVIDUAL RIGHT OR DIVINE GIFT

Summary/Abstract: In this research, I will try to outline a definition of the concept of Happiness by answering a few questions that have been the subject of research by philosophers, theologians and jurists. Can happiness be considered a civil freedom or a subjective right? Is the right to happiness one and the same as the right to the pursuit of happiness? Can we reduce Happiness to material aspects or do we have to transcend them? I will also try to show that happiness should not be understood in a restrictive way as updating a virtue, even if that virtue might be considered the most important of all other virtues. Happiness should not be equated in an exclusive manner with the activity of contemplation or reduced to a legal concept.

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