The master thesis seeks to analyze discursive representations of happiness present in the Czech Republic. Analytical conceptualization of happiness is based upon the two prominent views on happiness - hedonism and eudaimonism. Hedonic perspective situates the issue of achieving happiness into the context of pleasure seeking activities while eudaimonic perspective relates happiness to concepts such as self-actualization, fulfilment of one's potential, and similar topics broadly connected to personal growth and search for meaning. Concepts of hedonism and eudaimonism help to reduce the abstract nature of happiness. The thesis identifies three types of discursive representations of happiness - neoliberal, spiritual / religious, and pop-psychological representations. Particular representations define happiness differently. However, there are similarities and interdependencies in the aspects of how the hedonism and eudaimonism are being used. Thus, there are interactions between particular representations. Eudaimonism is more dominant in every representation in the sense of general claim that true (longlasting) happiness is never taken-for-granted, and that it must be cultivated. Representations that lean heavily towards eudaimonism were also associated with stronger normative dimension that might serve to...

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Orientador: Luiz Roberto Monzani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T01:57:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pulino_LuciaHelenaCavasinZabotto_D.pdf: 17696011 bytes, checksum: 60f363343f074bbbf741d3fc2f1cbe56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Este trabalho analisa o pensamento filosófico de Julien Offray de La Mettrie, e apresenta uma interpretação de sua ética. O estudo de L 'Homme-machine, Anti-Séneque, La Volupté e Discours Préliminaire, pennite a identificação das principais idéias de seu pensamento ético, tendo-se como referência o conceito de homme-machine. Faz-se uma análise de Anti-Séneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur, contrapondo-o a De Vita Beata, de Sêneca. Delineia-se a ética de La Mettrie, com suas múltiplas fonnas de felicidade: a bonheur organique, a volupté, e a bonheur social, todas elas enraizadas, em última instância, na organização fisiológica natural do indivíduo. O conceito de imaginação se revela como o elemento-chave na elaboração da ética do autor. Investiga-se o papel da faculdade da imaginação no processo de transformação da forma original de felicidade, a bonheur organique, nas outras formas, na inserção do ser humano em sociedade, na construção de um mundo simbólico e da linguagem em especial, e no processo de educação do homme-machine. Apresenta-se a ética de La Mettrie e seu papel na vida do indivíduo, como arte de viver, de conseguir ser livre em alguma medida, e, especialmente, a arte de ter prazer e de ser feliz, em uma sociedade cujos governantes seriam orientados pelo médicin-philosophe para acolher seu homme-machine. Oferece-se uma interpretação da ética de La Mettrie que considera o conceito de imaginação como o elemento-chave na elaboração e na compreensão do pensamento ético do médicin-philosophe / Abstract: This work analyses Julien Offray de La Mettrie' s philosophical thought, and presents an interpretation of his ethics. The study of L 'Homme-machine, Anti-Séneque, La Volupté and Discours Préliminaire pennits the identification of the main ideas of his ethical thought, taking his concept of homme-machine as a reference. An analysis of Anti-Séneque, or Discours sur le Bonheur, in opposition to Sêneca' s De Vila Beata is made. La Mettrie' s ethics is outlined, with its multiple fonns ofhappiness : the bonheur organique, the volupté, and the social bonheur, all of them rooted, in a defmitive way, in the individual' s physiological organization. The concept of imagination is revealed as the key element in the elaboration of his ethics. It is investigated the role of the faculty of imagination in the process of turning the original form of happiness, the bonheur organique, into the other forms, in the human being's insertion in society, in the construction of a symbolic world and specially of the language, and in the homme-machine' s process of education. It is presented La Mettrie's ethical thought and his role in the individual's life, as an art of living, an art of getting free in some degree, and, specially, as the art of being happy, in a society whose rulers should be oriented by the médicin-philosophe to receíve his homme-machine. It' s offered an interpretation of La Mettrie' s thought that takes the concept of imagination as the key element, in the elaboration as well as in the comprehension of the médicin-philosophe's ethics / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

This thesis is concerned with, in the words of Song of Songs, finding an appropriate answer to Qohelet's vanity - vanity of a human life and things that inherently come with it, as Qohelet himself proclaims in his book. The first chapter introduces the Book of Qohelet and aims to capture the main themes of vanity and transience, while also providing the ways out from this situation, as presented by Qohelet. The second chapter introduces the reader to the Song of Songs book while also describing its content which concerns the interpretation of love between a man and a woman. The third chapter brings forward efforts of the author and the main themes and conclusions of the book are analysed. This allows - in the conclusion of this thesis - to answer the question of whether the love in the Songs of Songs is a possible answer to Qoheleth's vanity - the transience of a human life, as brought out by Qohelet in his work.