IS HAPPINESS A RIGHT? Cover Image

ESTE FERICIREA UN DREPT?
IS HAPPINESS A RIGHT?

Author(s): Agata Mihaela Popescu
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Universitatea Crestina "Dimitrie Cantemir"
Keywords: happiness; Right; the harbor of happiness; the state of happiness; random happiness; the uncertainty of happiness; happiness and duration;

Summary/Abstract: Happiness should be a state of physical and mental comfort, not just a succession of pleasures. Pleasure is not equivalent to happiness. The ancients said that he who knows the causes of things is happy (Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Veirgilius). The pleasure of knowledge. Which is more mute than a satisfaction, more than a possession. And even more dumb than a right. Even for the simple reason that the process of knowledge is, perhaps, the only freedom that, although sometimes restricted or limited, is a direct part of the human being, is the being of being, is diving into the ocean of the unknowable infinity, to reveal its depths and identify its shores. and what exists beyond them. Of course, this is not a right. It is only a reality that the rule of law, under the pretext of protection, often restricts. Because law, although it synthesizes a reality in norms, in order to ensure its perfection and duration, often takes it away from its own essence. It is also the case of happiness.

  • Issue Year: XI/2020
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 69-72
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian