The purpose of life

According to Socrates, the purpose of life is to give it significance. He said that we may justify our existence by giving credit to arête, the Greek word for moral virtue. To reach our maximum potential via self-knowledge should be the goal of life. When asked what his life's purpose was, he said that it was to get better every day until he passed away.

He knows that he knows nothing, which is maybe one of the most cherished sayings. Despite the fact that he claimed to have attained self-knowledge, he ironically advanced a number of ethical notions. One of his beliefs was that knowledge is a virtue and that individuals engage in bad deeds because ignorance persists.

A person's acts of harming his fellow people are motivated by ignorance. When someone is harmed, they should not seek to exact revenge on them; instead, they should face severe hardships to keep their souls pure. He built his morally upright existence on this foundation since, in his eyes, there was no other option. At the center of every known spiritual journey is the concept of introspection and self-knowledge. It's all because of this enlightened Zen teacher.