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What is the purpose of this site?

Who is this site intended for?

For the most part, the life program of most people boils down to seeking privileges, preserving them, and passing them on to their descendants.

Conversely, this site is intended for those who:
1. seek something else,
2. are not satisfied by the plethora of fanciful theories that abound,
3. intend to implement them in their real lives.

This site will not provide you with superpowers, but it will enable you to direct your efforts usefully.
It involves taking a step back to clarify the overall functioning of human society, in order to then validate the relevance of your particular actione ₍₁₎, rather than merely presupposing it, or remaining in doubt, and at minimum, anxiety.

How to approach a question such as 'What am I doing with my life?'

To address a complex question or problem, one should proceed methodically, which involves breaking the study down into four steps.
1. Acknowledge the question or problem.
2. Conduct a serious analysis.
3. Develop a response, or solution, often partial.
4. Implement it.

The two most common errors consist in:

An example of a hasty response might be 'do what I really want,' followed by immense doubt ('do I dare to go ahead or not?') and possibly disillusionment ('I misjudged, I wasn't prepared properly'), or conversely, 'I preserved my comfort, and gradually let go of the meaning of my life.' On this site, you will find the means to nourish your analysis and build your life project on more solid foundations than simple voluntarism or resignation. These solid foundations, which consist in answering beforehand a whole series of related questions, will give you confidence in your choices and help you maintain your course in the face of inevitable difficulties.
More simply, 'What to do with one's life?' is the question that may naturally come to mind at certain stages of our lives, but answering it seriously presupposes building solid philosophical foundations, i.e., clearly answering a whole series of sub-questions that may seem less important, or not obviously linked to the initial question. An example of such a sub-question is 'What is a human?'; another is 'What is an adult?'.

For more details regarding the general methodology, refer to the question 'What conditions must be met to produce a serious line of reasoning? Problem solving.'

Site content

This site comprises a personal component and a collective component.

The personal component is a philosophical upgrade. It is not an overview of ideas and concepts, as is the philosophy curriculum for the final year of high school. We have carried out a drastic selection. The objective is not to enable learned debate, but to enable effective life management, which requires making wise choices to concentrate one's energies on difficult points and sacrifice the accessory to better preserve the essential.
You will find content in the personal section of this site that is quite different from what you usually encounter, whether in personal development, positive psychology, or even psychoanalytic or spiritual paths. Nevertheless, it constitutes a synthesis of classical philosophy (Epicureanism and Stoicism), classical spirituality (Buddhism)... and the modern scientific method. In fact, it does not aim to choose and glorify one of these approaches, but simply to rely on their contributions and transcend them, always keeping in mind that all of this only makes sense if it translates into implementation in real life.

The collective component is also an upgrade by presenting concepts with which we are not familiar, with a view to making the reading of the book From Capital to Reasonmore accessible. This site has a pedagogical aim, while the book aims to demonstrate. The book proposes a credible social organization to address the two great questions of our time, which are respecting ecological constraints and halting the progressive degradation of the social fabric.
The collective component is important because, if you understand the content of the individual component well, you will realize that social organization sets the limits of what can be done at the individual level. More simply, without a satisfactory social organization, there is hardly any individual solution. This is true both at the family level and at the State level.

This site makes little reference to Catholicism, because the latter is the seat of numerous controversies that risk diverting attention from the substance. However, apart from the love of one's neighbor, which is not placed at the center because it is an objective and not a method, someone imbued with the word of Christ will find here many elements familiar to them. They will find above all a more satisfactory link with modern science than that proposed by the Church, as well as a clearer articulation between individual responsibility and loyalty towards one's community. This site can therefore well be seen as the basis for a 21st-century catechism.

Organization

Each page of this site begins with a question, and provides - in principle - the most concise answer possible immediately below. The rest of the page is only intended to explicate the initial concise answer.
We intend, in the coming years, to continue improving the treatment of each question, on the one hand through comments, additions, testimonials, criticisms, posted online, and on the other hand through face-to-face exchanges and confrontation with the life experiences of all.

If you are a little lost at the beginning in the face of the multitude of questions addressed on this site, know that the central questions are:

By exploring all these questions, you will lay very useful foundations to then bring your own answer to your starting question: What am I doing with my life?

Objective

At the collective level, this website, along with the book From Capital to Reason, propose a unified philosophical, educational, and political model covering three issues:

At the individual level, seriously studying the content of this site will enable you to no longer be duped in human relationships, and to become as efficient as possible in shaping them, rather than merely enduring them.

Finally, the ultimate objective of this site is to give rise to a community characterized by:

1. Social relations are based on problem solving as opposed to alliance games, and facts prevail over beliefs.

2. The life objective is to move towards authenticity, as opposed to presenting a different facade from the substance, and eventually deceiving oneself.

3. Supporting each other in this difficult quest in a society where it is not the norm.

(1) See the concept of mental flexibility in ACT psychotherapy. When something is not working well, should we persevere, or adapt by modifying our objectives? The answer is: it all depends on the relevance of what one is trying to do, when taking a broader perspective.