“Pursuit of Happiness” by Roman Tolici. An axiological reflection on the contemporary human condition
“Pursuit of Happiness” by Roman Tolici. An axiological reflection on the contemporary human condition

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at an analysis of the desirability of the pursuit of happiness as it was constituted in an interdisciplinary discourse throughout time, from classical Greek antiquity to the contemporary era. Approaches from philosophy, sociology, psychology and art history, the latter entered more visibly in the specialized discourse as a result of the different types of discourse occasioned by the various directions of the evolution of art together with the artistic avant-garde artistic, have outlined over time multiple perspectives on the concept of happiness. Understood as a benchmark of morality, as a virtue or a vice, as a means to achieve perfection in the Afterlife, as a appanage of prosperity or subjective well-being, as an illusion or an idol, the issue of happiness has known various interpretations in history of humanity.

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