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Can you be a Buddhist and a Marxist? |
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Slott, Michael
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.12 n.2 |
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| Date | 2011.11 |
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| Pages | 347 - 363 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Buddhism; Marxist Philosophy; Social Problems; Activists; Social Theory; Dialectical Theology |
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| Abstract | Both Buddhism and Marxism have strengths and weaknesses in helping us to understand human experiences and social problems. Rather than trying to create a synthesis of the two perspectives, I attempt to discern the elements in each which can help us experience better lives and be more effective political activists. Buddhism identifies those understandings and practices which lead to greater happiness and less suffering in response to existential challenges that we all must face as mortal human beings, irrespective of the particular family, society, or historical era that we live in. But while Buddhism captures certain basic aspects of universal human experience, it does not take account of the interaction or dialectic between humans qua social beings and the relatively permanent social structures that humans both reinforce and challenge in the course of history. The latter is the province of a radical social theory, such as Marxism. At the same time, however, Marxism does not address the ways in which, at an experiential level, life causes suffering and anguish irrespective of the social context. |
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| Table of contents | I 347
II 349
III 356
IV 359
V 360
Acknowledgements 360
Notes 361
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2011.610640 |
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| Hits | 57 |
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| Created date | 2013.07.29 |
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| Modified date | 2017.06.30 |
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