Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego
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DOI 10.21697/kmt
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Keywords: eudaimonia philosophy of happiness and wellbeing hedonism happyness preference satisfaction theory
Having or Being? Happiness and the Structure of Human Life
Cite: , Having or Being? Happiness and the Structure of Human Life, "Kultura - Media - Teologia", 2018( 35) nr 4, s. 24-38.
DOI: 10.21697/kmt.35.2
The article identifies and discusses two contrasting views of happiness. There has been a strong tendency in philosophy, psychology and the social sciences to think of happiness as the possession of certain goods, be it pleasurable experiences, satisfied desires or personal traits or achievements. I argue that while this way of thinking about happiness is natural and to some extent inescapable, it clashes with the still more intuitive, but theoretically underdeveloped, notion that happiness depends on the way lives as a whole are lived or play out. I try to explicate this more holistic and dynamic notion of happiness and to motivate it by considering cases in which structural or contextual features seem to matter to happiness, while also recognizing the possible limitations of such an approach.
About authors
Søren Harnow Klausen
ORCID: 0000-0002-2650-1861
Issues
- KMT53: Literature - Media - Language
- KMT52: In the Field of Journalism
- KMT51: Liturgy in the virtual world
- KMT50: In the field of theology, communication and media culture
- KMT49: Communication and Media
- KMT48: Contemporary paradigms of social communication
- KMT47: We celebrate our 10th anniversary
- KMT46: In the field of politics, communication and media
- KMT45: Wisdom and communication in the present day
- KMT44: Search for good, truth and beauty
- KMT43: Indentity contexts
- KMT42: Cultural Identity
- KMT41: Madia in a pandemic
- KMT40: Communication and education
- KMT39: Communication in media, culture and theology
- KMT38: Forms of Communication
- KMT37: Image in media
- KMT36: Values on the Net
- KMT35: Happiness - concepts and visualizations
- KMT34: Happiness - concepts and symbols
- KMT33: Culture and media: transformations
- KMT32: Images and simulacra
- KMT31: Escaping Sacrum
- KMT30: Public relations in non-profit institutions
- KMT29: The hate and trolling on the Internet
- KMT28: The Media, Rituals and Lifestyle
- KMT27: Interdisciplinary discourses
- KMT26: The Absolute (not)present
- KMT25: Hating and trolling on the Internet
- KMT24: Socio-cultural communication: between dialogue and social engineering
- KMT23: Monastic Spirituality
- KMT22: The Faces of the Cinema
- KMT21: Media, Relationships, Communication
- KMT20: Theology of Mass Media
- KMT19: Edith Stein – Saint and Feminist?
- KMT18: Advertising, marketing and law
- KMT17: The Truth of time, the Truth of the Screen
- KMT16: Culture and communication
- KMT15: The media and education
- KMT14: Interdisciplinary discourses
- KMT13: Manipulation in the media
- KMT12: Communications at the Council
- KMT11: Media and the sacrum
- KMT10: Religion and media
- KMT9: Media artifacts
- KMT8: Cultural spaces
- KMT7: Identity and its foundations
- KMT6: Media, culture, money and...
- KMT5: Truth in the media?
- KMT4: Supermarket of the culture
- KMT3: Media masquerade
- KMT2: Rev. prof. Antoni Lewek (1940-2010) - life and work
- KMT1: Thresholds for (post)modernity
Links
- Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
- Wydział Teologiczny UKSW
- Instytut Wiedzy o Kulturze
- Instytut Edukacji Medialnej i Dziennikarstwa
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