The Human Happiness Community Charter and Manifesto—From Theoretical Architecture to Future Civilizational Practice

The Human Happiness Community (HHC) begins with the question of individual happiness and gradually extends its inquiry to relationships, self-regarding and public-regarding good, personality, group hostility, civilizational integration, culture, religion, ideology, institutions, state borders, social practice, and organizational self-restraint. Once a theory enters public practice, however, a broad vision is no longer sufficient. A body of thought oriented toward happiness, common interests, and civilizational integration can itself be distorted in practice into coercion, assimilation, personality cult, or a new form of ideological closure unless it simultaneously defines limits on its own power. This paper therefore closes the first stage of the HHC series through a dual structure: Charter + Manifesto. The Charter of the Human Happiness Community presented here is not a national constitution, an international treaty, a blueprint for world government, or a religious scripture. It is an open set of principles and a self-limiting agreement for voluntary practitioners. Beginning from the subjecthood of the person, it sets out principles concerning shared happiness, civilizational integration, religion and knowledge, institutional governance, common human interests, social practice, and organizational governance. It also makes explicit that the theory may be questioned, members may exit, power must be constrained, organizations may terminate, and HHC itself may be replaced by a better theory. On this basis, the paper includes the Human Happiness Community Manifesto (2026 Academic Final Short Version), integrating the public expressive force of the earlier manifesto with the academic boundaries established across Papers 00-13. The revised Manifesto no longer relies on claims such as 'the only path,' 'historical inevitability,' or 'a completed truth of human nature.' Instead, it presents HHC as a civilizational path that can be understood, practiced, tested, criticized, and revised. The Charter defines boundaries; the Manifesto expresses direction. Together they constitute the first integrated text through which HHC moves from a theoretical system toward future public practice.