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What is the purpose of life?

If one is a human being, the only reasonable purpose is: collective happiness.

The illusion of individual happiness

The pursuit of individual happiness sooner or later, in a direct or indirect form, leads to harming others in order to achieve one's individual goal. By symmetry, this leads to the world we are all too familiar with, where everyone complains about the nuisances caused by others, generally without any awareness of one's own nuisances, due to the resolution of cognitive dissonance through beliefs.

The illusion of morality in the form of fixed rules

This is the path attempted by religious movements: a series of rules intended to guide the individual toward morality and spiritual elevation. In the rest of this website, we show that a set of fixed rules is inappropriate, always perverted, and that the only rule that holds is: yield to the facts. See the question 'What does one need to do to be a good person?'

What is collective happiness?

Collective happiness does not mean imposing one's own stereotypical vision of happiness, one's own tastes, on others. Working for collective happiness means regarding all others as friends in the sense of the question 'What is a good friend?'.

The path of the hermit

One can act with the goal of common happiness, but one cannot force others to do the same. Consequently, discouragement leads some highly respectable individuals to withdraw from the world. However, we believe it is more appropriate to return to the question 'How to succeed in life?' and to rework the teachings of Epictetus and Epicurus so that the struggle for collective happiness becomes bearable.

Deepening

Start with the question 'What is a human?' which sets the general framework within which we operate.
Then see the question 'How to succeed in life?' which provides the method to follow.
Finally, consult the question 'What is difficult to overcome to succeed in life?' which covers largely the same content, with a slightly different approach.