Palgrave Macmillan | Buddhism And Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective (2020 EN)

Author: Seth Zuihō Segall
Full Title: Buddhism And Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective
Publisher: ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (February 28, 2021)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9783030370275 (978-3-030-37027-5), 9783030370268 (978-3-030-37026-8), 9783030370299 (978-3-030-37029-9)
ISBN-10: 3030370275, 3030370267, 3030370291
Pages: 193
Language: English
Genre: Buddhism
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 80.24 €


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.


Overview:
✓ Explores the tensions between traditional Buddhist teachings and core Western beliefs regarding human well-being and flourishing
✓ Suggests a revised understanding of the enlightenment ideal that combines Buddhist and Aristotelian elements
✓ Demonstrates how this revised understanding already tacitly informs much of contemporary Western Buddhist rhetoric

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