Rückblicke: Plastische Urteile zwischen Moral und Lust. Philosophische Theorien des Glücks

In a small ”philosophy story of joy”, the author bends a bow from Aristotle across Kant to utilitarianism. Aristotle had defined joy as that, where a person finds himself. Kant on the other hand accents, that a person can only be satisfied with himself who lives in unison with his moral beliefs. With the utilitarian the author retains: ”It is not questionable, whether we are all strive for joy, but what joy is.” Here the task of (adult) education affiliates: It must first enable people to judgements on joy by ”debate with the world”. Yet it is not constituted, that people with education would be happier.