Homo beatus w kulturze — trzy wielkie księgi o drodze do szczęścia. Refleksy myśli biblijnej, senecjańskiej i arystotelejskiej w poezji polskiej XVIII wieku
Homo beatus in culture — three great books on the way to happiness. Reflexes of the biblical, Senecian and Aristotelian thought in the Polish poetry of the 18th century

Author(s): Ewa Gutmańska‑Gralak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The mankind has been trying to answer the question on the possibility of reaching happinessin the earth for centuries. A kind of a loadstar for thinkers, philosophers, but also artists of variousfields of art was great books in which vita beata played a significant role.The subject of the article constitutes three books, ascribed to three cultural circles. That isAristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics within the scope of the Greek culture, Seneca’s treatise De vitaBeata from the Roman thought, and — the Bible of the Hebrew origin. A common denominator ofthe interpretation of these books, and at the same time, a starting point for the analysis of their rolein the culture, is the motive of happiness as an eternal aim and desire of a human being.Among the issues raised in the paper we can also find reinterpretations of these books and thescope of their influence on works by Polish poets, especially in the 18th century, i.e. FranciszekKarpiński, Ignacy Krasicki, Adam Naruszewicz and Jakub Jasiński.

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