Open AccessTEMPORALITY AND HAPPINESS TODAY: A POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORICAL THINKING, DEMOCRACY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HAPPINESS
Author(s) -
Marcelo de Mello Rangel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sapere aude
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2177-6342
pISSN - 2176-2708
DOI - 10.5752/p.2177-6342.2019v10n20p600-612
Subject(s) - temporality , happiness , epistemology , democracy , sociology , theme (computing) , aesthetics , psychology , social psychology , politics , philosophy , political science , law , computer science , operating system
We will work with the delimitation of what I am calling happiness based on the thematization of the temporality problem. Or, in addition, taking as a starting point the relationship of complementarity between certain mobility of history and the way people behave in general. The basic understanding present here is that the experience of happiness would become possible from a mobility between more dissonant pasts and futures, therefore, with a view to the possibility of a reorganization of someone including the world to which belongs. We will address the theme of contemporary temporality and the way it has made the experience of happiness difficult, especially in view of what we might call a double reduction: the “space of experience” and the “horizon of expectation”. Finally, we will address the relationship between historical thinking, what I’m calling democracy (or democratization) and the experience of happiness itself, especially from the democratic hypothesis.