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March 20th, 2016
Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Wester Perspective
by Seth Segall
About the author(s):
Seth Zuihō Segall is a Zen Buddhist priest and clinical psychologist who served for nearly three decades on the clinical faculty of Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly and a chaplain associate at White Plains Hospital.
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 a... Read More »ccounts 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. « Read Less
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Table of Contents:
Table of contents (8 chapters)
The Changing Nature of Buddhism Pages
1-12
What Is Enlightenment? Pages
13-31
What Is Eudaimonia?
Pages 33-61
The Fate of Traditional Enlightenment in the West
Pages 63-79
Suffering and the Cessation of Suffering
Pages 81-113
Self and Self-Transcendence
Pages 115-141
Buddhist Ethics and Eudaimonic Enlightenment
Pages 143-169
Metaphysical Humility: The Eudaimonic Enlightenment Model and Beyond
Pages 171-185
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