If we go back into our tradition, we are going to find a concern with religion, which at a minimum shatters the selfish context of the individual life, and thus forces a consideration of what human beings are and ought to be.
If we dig into our cultural tradition, we are going to find a concern with religion, which, at least destroys the belief that the individual lives selfishly, and the destruction of this belief will make people consider and examine seriously what human beings are and what they ought to be.