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Life is worth living, but not any life. The value and significance of a life depends upon the goal towards which it moves. Only rational beings like us are capable of a critical choice and clear consciousness of that goal. Our superiority and excellence, if any, consists in the quality of the goal four life and our capacity for voluntary striving towards that. What, then, is the real goal of our life? There does not seem to be a single simple goal for us to seek. Obviously our supreme goal or best good (sumum bonum) is rationality, but our total good is a complex whole made of both rational and non-rational factors. is the only independent (absolute) and intrinsic value which cannot be denied without self-contradiction. Before all and above all, we shall be rational beings. But rationality must be sought in concrete situations, in multifarious activities. These activities have an immediate end. viz, happiness. That is, our total good consists in being rational our search for happiness. The happiness is the non-rational factor, since there is no logic either for or against it. We cannot logically argue why we shall be happy or why we shall be not.

What is the supreme goal of our life?

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Our supreme goal or highest good (summum bonum) of our life is rationality.

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