Petre Andrei și perspectiva etico-sociologică asupra fericirii
Petre Andrei and the ethical-sociological perspective on happiness

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to analyze critically the manner in which the wish to be happy and the hope of achieving this state are approached by the scholar Petre Andrei in his work Despre fericire [On happiness]. Thus, the psychological origins of happiness and the possibility of being truly happy, the possible causes and the contents of happiness, its social and ethical grounds, vulnerability to outside conditions and the role of practical wisdom in the achievement of the state of happiness, happiness as an impulse to moral action – all these are major landmarks in Andrei’s approach, and the author’s answers are both competent and profound. In this context, we believe that the interaction and mutual conditioning between all these elements, highlighted by the Romanian philosopher, and the way he mixed the theoretical perspective with our representations bring an added-value to the understanding and analysis of this phenomenon as a whole, contributing, to the same extent, to the creation of an authentic picture of the way in which the fundamental mechanisms of happiness can be recognized and clarified.

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