Filozofii „fericirii”
The philosophers of ' happiness '
Author(s): Mara Magda MafteiSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: happiness; emotions; relation religion-happiness; Spinoza; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; Freud
Summary/Abstract: This short paper tackles the difficult issue of happiness. If questioned, nobody will ever choose not to be happy. Still, people have problems in understanding and therefore accessing in their own everyday life those situations or emotions which guarantee them happiness. Nowadays, happiness seems to be more like a theoretical concept towards which many people have even given up to aspire to. Nevertheless, many philosophers, ancient or modern, focused on this major feeling for human beings. We insist here on some well-known writers, who chose to write about it, but first of all we insist on the idea that happiness represents emotions; every human being should know how to handle emotions in order to procure him/her satisfaction. After all, there is a lot of logic in embracing happiness.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica
- Issue Year: 17/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 77-82
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Romanian