بين تحصيل السعادة وإصلاح الفلسفة في عالم معاصر "فلسفة السعادة عند آلان باديو نموذجاً"

This research deals with the concept of happiness according to the contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou, who, in his treatment of the subject of happiness, as a contemporary problem on the one hand, and a traditional philosophical problem on the other hand, seeks to approach the problem of philosophical thought itself in our current era, by revealing a point The main connection between happiness and philosophy, which means the true and original meaning of a worthy life. A person is unable to live happily if he does not discover the meaning of true life and discover the conditions that determine it. On the other hand, revealing the essence of life is a philosophical task par excellence, because it is linked to a person’s awareness of the existence around him, and to the awareness of his relationship with this existence as well.
Badiou attributes the inability of man today to explore the true meaning of happiness to two main reasons: The first is that contemporary philosophical trends, because of the approaches they adopt and the goals they seek, are unable to formulate a theoretical awareness that enables us to understand the true meaning of life, and thus the meaning of our existence in it. The second reason relates to the characteristics of our contemporary world as it is today, which is dominated by commodity communication, monetary abstraction, the elevation of the importance of imaginary security, and the rejection of values that encourage intellectual courage and the desire for change and adventure.
Badiou believes that the reason contemporary philosophies fail to respond to the problems of the world today is that these philosophies are designed to conform to this world as it is and to the form of life it imposes, and not to what true life should be and what we want from it. Therefore, the reason for deprivation of a happy life is the inability to live the life that it deserves, and in order to know the meaning of true life, we must start from reforming philosophy itself, and restoring its main demand; the truth.