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What is the objective of this site?

Who is this site for?

The life program of most people is generally limited to seeking to acquire privileges, to preserve them, and to transmit them to their descendants.

Conversely, this site is aimed at those who:
1. are looking for something else,
2. are not satisfied with the wild theories that abound,
3. intend to implement it in their real life.

This site will not give you superpowers, but will allow you to usefully direct your efforts.

How do you approach a question like 'What am I doing with my life?'

To address a question or a complex problem, it is appropriate to proceed methodically, which consists of dividing the study into four stages.
1. Identify the question or problem.
2. Conduct a serious analysis.
3. Develop a response, or solution, often partial.
4. Implement it.

The two most classic errors consist of:

An example of a hasty response could be "do what I really want" followed by immense doubt "do I dare to go for it or not" and possibly disillusionment "I had anticipated badly, I I was poorly prepared” or in the opposite case “I preserved my comfort, and let the meaning of my life slip away little by little”. On this site, you will find something to nourish your analysis and build your life project on more solid foundations than simple voluntarism or resignation. These solid foundations, which consist of answering a whole series of related questions beforehand, will give you confidence in your choices and help you stay on track in the face of inevitable difficulties.
More simply, 'What to do with your life?' is the question that can naturally come to our minds at certain periods of our life, but answering it seriously requires building solid philosophical foundations, that is to say clearly answering a whole series of sub-questions that seem to us less important, or not obviously linked to the original 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 serious reasoning? Problem solving.'

Site content

This site consists of a personal section and a collective section.

The personal aspect is a philosophical upgrade. It is not a panorama of ideas and concepts, like the final year philosophy program. We made a drastic selection. The objective is not to enable scholarly debate, but to enable one to lead one's life effectively, which presupposes making judicious choices to be able to concentrate one's forces on difficult points, and sacrificing the accessory to better preserve the essential.
You will find in the personal section of this site content quite different from what you usually find, both on the personal development side, as well as positive psychology, or even psychoanalytic or spiritual paths. However, it is a synthesis of classical philosophy (Epicureanism and Stoicism), classical spirituality (Buddhism) ... and modern scientific method. In fact, it does not aim to choose and glorify one of these approaches, but simply to build on their contributions, and go beyond them, always keeping in mind that all this only makes sense if it translates into real-life implementation.

The collective component is also an upgrade through the presentation of concepts with which we are not familiar, with a view to making reading the book more accessible. From capital to reason. This site is for educational purposes, the book aims to disassemble. The book proposes a credible social organization to answer the two major questions of our time, which are respect for ecological constraints, and stopping the progressive degradation of the social fabric.
The collective component is important, because if you understand the content of the individual component, you will see that social organization sets the limits of what we can do at the individual level. Put more simply, without a satisfactory social organization, there is hardly any individual solution. This is true both at the level of the family and at that of the State.

This site makes little reference to Catholicism, because it is the site of numerous controversies which risk distracting attention from the substance. However, apart from the love of one's neighbor which is not put at the center, because it is an objective and not a method, someone imbued with the word of Christ will find here many elements that are familiar to him. Above all, he will find a more satisfactory link with modern science than the Church offers, as well as a clearer articulation between individual responsibility and loyalty to his community. This site can therefore very well be seen as the basis of a 21st century catechism.

Organization

Each page of this site starts with a question, and provides - in principle - just below the most concise answer possible. The rest of the page is only intended to explain the initial synthetic response.
We wish, in the years to come, to continue to improve the treatment of each question, on the one hand via comments, additions, testimonials, critiques, posted online, and on the other hand via face-to-face exchanges and confrontation. to each other's life experiences.

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

By exploring all these questions, you will lay very useful foundations so that you can then provide your own answer to your initial question: What am I doing with my life?

Objective

Seriously studying the content of this site will first of all allow you to no longer be fooled in terms of human relationships, and become efficient in shaping them instead of just being subjected to them.

Then, the ultimate objective of this site is to create a community characterized by:

1. Social relationships are based on problem solving as opposed to alliances, and facts take precedence over beliefs.

2. The goal of life is to move toward authenticity, as opposed to presenting a facade that is different from the substance, and ending up lying to yourself.

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