  Emphasizing that this is Ibn Gabirol's main concern, we find in the opening pages of his Fons Vitae text a reminder that the goal of the entire inquiry is to understand why human beings were made (“Quare factus est homo?,” “Why was man made?”—Fons Vitae 1.1, p. 2, line 8)—which  is to say, to understand the ends (or purpose) of human being (the Fons Vitae teaches that a human ought to “pursue knowledge of his final cause [or: purpose] according to which he was composed,” Fons Vitae 1.2, p. 4, lines 8–9). In spelling out the true, divinely ordained goal of human life (the purpose of the human life is described as a product of God's Will at Fons Vitae 1.2, p. 4, lines 10–12), the text describes a twofold endeavor: the pursuit of knowledge and the doing of good deeds (Fons Vitae 1.2, p. 4, line 27).