dressing a range of social issues from the environment to education, this book looks at Buddhist concepts and practices as a promising means for challenging existing paradigms.
The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence. The key arenas for public policy are addressed: the environment, health, media, trade and development, the interplay of politics and religion, international relations, terror and security, and education. Each chapter explains how a specific issue area has come to be shaped by complex interdependence and offers specific insights into directing the growing interdependence toward greater equity, sustainability, and freedom. Thereby, a sustained meditation on the meaning and means of realizing public good is put forward, which results in a solid Buddhist conception of diversity.
Hershock argues that the concepts of karma and emptiness are relevant across the full spectrum of policy domains and that Buddhist concepts become increasingly forceful as concerns shift from the local to the global.
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Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 1 Liberating environments 13 2 Health and healing: relating the personal and the public 39 3 Trade, development, and the possibility of post-market economics 59 4 Technology, media, and the colonization of consciousness 85 5 Governance cultures and countercultures: religion, politics, and public good 102 6 Diversity as commons: international relations beyond competition and cooperation 127 7 From vulnerability to virtuosity: responding to the realities of global terrorism 154 8 Educating for virtuosity 171 Notes 203 Bibliography 221 Index 225
