TY  - JOUR
T1  - Success Philosophy: Historical Transformation of the
Concept and Modern Aspects of Understanding
AU - Anatolevich Kayukov, Valery 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 29
SP  - 7062
EP  - 7066
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.7062.7066
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7062.7066
KW  - Success
KW  -assumption
KW  -successfulness
KW  -work
KW  -objective and subjective success
KW  -internal and external success
KW  -desire
AB  - The study deals with the success philosophy its historical and cultural transformation. How often
in modern life do people face a need to evaluate the actions of others? They have to correlate it to a certain
arbitrary scale where the highest estimate is success and the lowest a failure. These estimation standards of
certain people’s actions especially actively apply to famous and creative people-politicians, athletes, TV
presenters, musicians, etc. The first, perhaps the most eye-catching, level of success is the monetary, financial
success. But is it the main and only, the most important and most valuable measure of success? We have
analyzed the understanding of success in the ancient biblical time, magic art, antiquity, ancient Chinese
philosophy, early Christianity, the renaissance, protestantism and philosophy of pragmatism. The social and
philosophical aspect presents the modern understanding of success. The relationship between the objective
(external) and subjective (internal) types of success is analyzed; a positive essence of the success as the single
desire to achieve a goal and subsequent emotional satisfaction of the choice of ways to achieve the desired
are determined. The criteria to achieve positive success in practice and the factors being obstacles to such
achievement are presented.
ER  -