CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HAPPINESS AND JOY IN RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY IN 19th AND IN THE FIRST HALF OF 20th CENTURIES
Abstract
Th e article explores the understanding of happiness and joy in Russian religious philosophy in the 19th and in the fi rst half of 20th centuries. Th e notion of happiness is usually split into two domains: “objective” or normative and value aspect, placing happiness among ethic categories, and “subjective” aspect covering individual emotions and feelings such as joy which constitute the direct content of phenomenon of happiness. However Russian religious philosophy highlights diff erent key points: joy defi ned as religious experience turns to be detached from the notion of happiness as well as not correlated with laical ethical constructs based on eudaimonist principle. Such understanding of joy is stipulated by internal connection of Russian religious philosophy with Christian tradition the fi eld of discourse of which attaches fundamental signifi cance exactly to the idea of spiritual joy and not to the idea of happiness. Refs 17.
Keywords:
happiness, joy, Russian religious philosophy, Christianity, ethics
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