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What is the purpose of this website?

Who is this website 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 website is for those who:
1. seek something else,
2. are not satisfied by the wild theories that abound,
3. intend to put into practice in their real lives.

This website will not provide you with superpowers, but will allow you to direct your efforts usefully.
It involves taking a step back to clarify the overall functioning of human society, so as to then validate the relevance of your particular actione ₍₁₎, instead of merely presupposing it, or remaining in doubt and, at the very least, anxiety.

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

To address a question, or a complex problem, one must proceed methodically, which involves dividing the study into four steps.
1. Observe the question or problem.
2. Conduct a serious analysis.
3. Develop a response, or solution, often partial.
4. Put it into practice.

The two most classic errors consist in:

An example of a hasty response might be 'do what I really want', followed by immense doubt 'do I dare to launch myself or not', and possibly disillusionment 'I anticipated poorly, I was poorly prepared', or conversely 'I preserved my comfort, and gradually let the meaning of my life slip away'. On this website, you will find what you need to nourish your analysis and build your life project on firmer foundations than mere willfulness or resignation. These solid foundations, consisting in answering beforehand a whole series of related questions, will give you confidence in your choices and help you keep 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 periods of our lives, but answering it seriously requires building solid philosophical foundations, meaning to answer clearly 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 being?'; another is 'What is an adult?'.

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

Site content

This site consists of 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 made a drastic selection. The objective is not to enable learned debate, but to enable effective conduct of one's life, which implies making sound choices to concentrate one's strengths on difficult points, and sacrifice the accessory to better preserve the essential.
You will find in the personal component of this site content quite different from what you usually find, whether in self-help, positive psychology, or in psychoanalytical or spiritual paths. Nevertheless, it is 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 surpass them, always keeping in mind that all of this only makes sense if translated into practice in real life.

The collective component is also an upgrade by presenting concepts with which we are not familiar, in order to make the reading of the book From Capital to Reasonmore accessible. This site is pedagogical in nature, the book aims to demonstrate. The book proposes a credible social organization to address the two great questions of our time, which are respect for ecological constraints, and the end of 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. Said more simply, without a satisfactory social organization, there is hardly any individual solution. This is true both at the family scale and at the State scale.

This site makes little reference to Catholicism, because it is the seat of many controversies that risk diverting 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 familiar elements. 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 to one's community. This site can therefore very well be seen as the basis of a catechism for the 21st century.

Organization

Each page of this site begins with a question, and provides - in principle - directly below the most synthetic possible answer. The rest of the page aims only to explicate the initial synthetic answer.
We wish, in the coming years, to continue to improve the treatment of each question, on the one hand via comments, supplements, testimonies, critiques posted online, and on the other hand via face-to-face exchanges and confrontation with the life experiences of one and all.

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

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

Objective

At the collective level, this website, plus 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 allow you to no longer be naive in human relationships, and become as efficient as possible in shaping them, instead of just enduring them.

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

1. Social relationships 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 facade different from the substance, and eventually lying to oneself.

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

(1) See the notion 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 we are trying to do, when we take a step back.