This work is the result of theoretical and practical research and points out the privileged settings that lead the person towards human fulfillment and happiness. The first setting is the family, the educational setting par excellence, since the constitutive bonds of the personality such as paternity, maternity and filiation are established within it; the family is where each human being is recognized and loved and learns the proper exercise of his freedom. The school and the university constitute the second training setting of singular importance. In this, young people are helped to harmoniously develop intelligence, will and affections. This is done through formal education –scientific and humanistic– and those activities –such as volunteering or social service– that allow the expression of compassion, solidarity, artistic qualities, etc. Different areas of personal development that aim at the consolidation of virtuous leaders capable of building a culture of life that moves towards peace.

The book includes a collection of articles resulting from research carried out by teachers of the Department of Humanities and whose thematic center is the relationship between people and happiness. Each chapter provides answers from a specific disciplinary field, through a qualitative methodology, the anthropological and ethical problem of achievement of happiness or personal human fulfillment. From education and ethics, the transition from some informative humanities to other performative ones is proposed, which integrate moral formation and values that advocate empathy and solidarity as a human path to happiness. From the anthropological keys of Leonardo Polo, the person can give meaning to their presence in the world, beyond the satisfaction of happiness itself, since human beings has a personal sense capable of manifesting themselves in the hopeful task. Likewise, from the personalistic anthropology, happiness is studied as a life project, moving from the conflict towards spirituality and proposing chose political educational transformations. In the field of historical sciences, the use of the concepts of person and happiness in the Magisterium of John xxiii underlines the perspectives suggested by the Pope and collected by successive pontiffs. From the law, the relationship is analyzed between justice and happiness, applied to the so-called “right to die with dignity”; and from the bioethics, reflections on procreation and happiness are raised based on the current debate on surrogacy.