Findings on the search for happiness in contemporaneity

Abstract

Happiness is considered a very widespread theme, from antiquity to the present. Reflecting on it becomes extremely necessary since happiness is much encouraged in a disorderly way, but little is thought. The main objective of this study is to propose a reflection on the search for happiness, in order to lead the reader to the starting point of the path to the conquest of happiness. It is intended to use bibliographical research based on works made available in the virtual and printed media, as a methodology for compliance with said proposal. In front of the objectives, it was possible to arrive at some considerations, of which three are highlighted: 1) Such a search properly, without first checking other pertinent questions, is ineffective; 2) It is inherent to the human being the desire for a lasting happiness, even if apparently it does not exist; 3) Happiness can be based on the possession of wisdom and the knowledge of meaning; in these two things, happiness becomes a consequence.