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Buddhism and Human Flourishing = A Modern Western Perspective

Author :  Seth Zuihō Segall

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Country
Switzerland
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 9783030370268
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info 193 p,XVI, 193 p.
Categories Buddhism
Product Weight 406 gms.
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The Buddha and Aristotle offer competing visions of the best possible life to which human beings can aspire. In this volume, Seth Zuiho Segall compares Theravada and Mahayana 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, nirvana, and selfhood from the eudaimonic enlightenment perspective, and explores the perspective’s ethical and metaphysical implications.

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