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Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective

By Seth Zuihō Segall

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030370275, 9783030370268
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
565 kB (578918 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-20 08:34:41
Religion & Spirituality; Nonfiction; REL007000

Description

The Buddha and Aristotle offer competing visions of the best possible life to which human beings can aspire. In this volume, Seth Zuihō Segall compares Theravāda and Mahāyāna accounts of enlightenment with Aristotelian and neo-Aristotelian accounts of eudaimonia, and proposes a syncretic model of eudaimonic enlightenment that, given prevalent Western beliefs about well-being and human flourishing, provides a credible new end-goal for modern Western Buddhist practice. He then demonstrates how this proposed synthesis is already deeply reflected in contemporary Western Buddhist rhetoric. Segall re-evaluates traditional Buddhist teachings on desire, attachment, aversion, nirvāṇa, and selfhood from the eudaimonic enlightenment perspective, and explores the perspective's ethical and metaphysical implications.

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