Trabalho voluntário e realização espiritual: um estudo a partir do pensamento de Victor E. Frankl

Volunteer work has gained new connotations in the contemporary world, generating new investments in academic studies and gaining space in the media and cultural movements. This dissertation, aims to investigate the voluntary work as a potential achiever of the human being in his spirituality, from the theoretical referential in the perspective of Viktor Frankl. For this, the first chapter deals with Viktor Frankl's theory and its main concepts related to spirituality, such as: noetic dimension, spiritual unconscious and self-transcendence. The second chapter deals conceptually with voluntary work, together with a brief history of this reality in Brazil and, finally, the motivations that stimulate voluntary action. The third chapter seeks to associate voluntary work and spiritual attainment. For this, it develops themes such as: solidarity based on ethical principles, altruism, empathy, gratuitousness and more emphatically the attitude of love from the spiritual dimension, concluding that voluntary work based on deep love has the potential to perform the person spiritually. The methodology used is the bibliographical review, using the hermeneutic phenomenology. And it ends with the final considerations, reinforcing the idea that voluntary work is potentially fulfilling of the person in his spirituality because it is directed towards a search for meaning for life and can also be understood from the capacity that the human being has to come out of self-absorption and to look beyond oneself, toward another or a cause, understanding in this the possibilities of self-transcendence.