The human hearted way in brief

The human hearted way is an approach to life  that recommends cultivating and building on our human pro-social capacities—such as our potential for compassion, love and friendship —as the key path to  meaning and fulfillment in life.

The core idea is that the source of pro social feelings and behaviors like love, compassion and sympathy come from our inherent social potential, our human heart, not from an external source such as God, the nation, or pure reason.

The path to a meaningful and fulfilling life therefore is to cultivate the best of our humanity, and build better relations with others, rather than surrendering our conscience and independence to an external idol like a God or a nation.

The human hearted way is the best, and most evidence based, path to meaning and fulfillment  in the face of the vast and meaningless universe we all inhabit.

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Human hardheartedness does not reject reason, but places reason in the context of human sociality. People practicing human heartedness use reason, evidence and experience to work out the best path to living a more fulfilling life, by developing their own human heartedness, and building communities influenced by human heartedness. Building on human heartedness, we can create happier and more fulfilled versions of ourselves, of our local communities, of humanity and of our world. 

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We are working to steadily build up this website. We plan to add pages that explain: -

- Human heartedness as an answer to questions of meaning in life

- Why focus on human heartedness today

- Six basic principles of human heartedness

- Inspirational aspects of the human hearted way

- Where the name human hearted came from

- Human heartedness and living with uncertainty

- Self actualisation seen from a human hearted perspective as a social project - social self actualisation, rather than a purely individualistic one.