To define a concept like happiness is not easy. If the definitions include transcendental, parafilosophic, universal, timeless issues, etc., the definition may change even depending on a particular worldview that functions in the general social consciousness in a society in which someone tries to answer this type of question. In addition, the issues of key values, the system of values, freedom of speech and thought, the importance of art in a given period, religiousness, interpersonal relations, identification of the individual citizen in the context of the community in which he functions, and the role of feelings of love, faith, hope and living standards in relation to the realities of reality in which a person lives, the possibilities of expressing feelings are determinants that can have a significant impact on understanding and defining such a concept as happiness. in addition to determinants influencing the definition of happiness, in addition to the factors shaping the explanation of the essence of happiness in a given community, place and time, there are also universal, transcendental, intuitive, psychosomatic, genetic, sociobiological and social values, that are tied in Masłów's Pyramid with higher needs may be key issues of the essence of happiness. It is first and foremost the possibility of doing good towards other people, the possibility of bringing help, the possibility of self-realization in creating lofty, valuable and artistic things. In addition, the possibility of creation, artistry, the possibility of self-realization in creating beautiful, valuable and appreciated things by other people can be, under certain conditions, the creation of a free expression of creativity and self-realization, the universal essence of feeling happiness. This type of feeling happiness in human consciousness has evolved evolutionally through the development of social behavior, interpersonal relations, genetically shaped sociobiological behaviors and the perceived by the person of the community as a kind of positive well-being in psychological terms.

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