Pułapka szczęścia współczesnego człowieka

Barbara Żmuda

doi:10.15633/lie.1697

The happiness trap of modern man

Authors

Barbara Żmuda Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.1697

Keywords:

happiness, unhappiness, happiness trap, Russell Harris, modern society

Abstract

This article will attempt to analyze the concept of happiness, dominant in modern society indicating that “happy is the man who has everything he wants”. In contemporary society focused on the efficiency and competition, good fortune is no longer something existing, but something which is to be achieved. Everywhere we hear that happiness can be caught, you should fight for it, and the best reach him before others do it, or quickly catch what others already have. It appears hot lust and infinite desire to possess what seems necessary to happiness. For this reason, it raises the problem of the lack of full and as a result of not achieving happiness: when something good has already reached a certain size, it ceases to have us enjoy – we begin to crave something more, we fall into a “happiness trap”. In the course of Happiness appears paradoxical mystery of fullness and emptiness, it arises the feeling that man is unhappy.
This article attempts to answer the following questions: Why in a world where many goods we have at hand, we still feel unhappy? Whether this pursuit of happiness can make us unhappy? And finally: Is there true happiness and what are its terms?

Author Biography

Barbara Żmuda, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

Mgr, doktorantka w Katedrze Etyki, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Absolwentka studiów magisterskich na Wydziale Filozoficznym UPJPII. Od 2015 roku Przewodnicząca Samorządu Doktorantów UPJPII. Ważniejsze publikacje: Rationality as a guarantee of human dignity, [w:] Racionálne – iracionálne, eds. P. Sucharek, O. Marchevsky, Prešov 2015; Etyka zawodowa w polityce – etyczny polityk a problem brudnych rąk, [w:] Perspektivy profesijnej etiky, ed. V. Gluchman, Presov 2014. Zainteresowania naukowe: etyka personalistyczna, prawa człowieka, bioetyka, etyka biznesu, etyka zawodowa oraz etyka polityki.

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Published

2016-07-01

Issue

Vol. 40 (2016): Szczęście i radość w relacjach społecznych

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Articles

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