The Great Ideas in the Noble Buddhist Doctrine of Liberation

Adam L. Barborich

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Chapter 13 The Great Ideas in the Noble Buddhist Doctrine of Liberation

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Page Range:: 237–256

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468016_015

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This chapter argues that the Great Ideas are integral to Mortimer J. Adler’s Great Books Movement in much the same way that the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are integral to Buddhism. Both use ‘Great’ and ‘Noble’ to point toward human excellence. For Adler, the Great Ideas are the metaphysical and moral concepts out of which Western civilization developed. They are the main topics in an ongoing great conversation that shapes Western culture. Precisely because these Great Ideas are great, insofar as they point toward human excellence (virtue), they ought not be considered the exclusive property of the West. Instead, as Adler recognized, they should be utilized in the analysis of other cultural traditions. This chapter uses two of Adler’s Great Ideas, freedom and religion, to analyze Buddhism as it is encountered in the early Indian Buddhist texts. It asserts all human philosophy and culture, including that of Buddhism, is ultimately based in religion, thereby making religion the greatest of Adler’s and the Buddha’s Great philosophical and cultural ideas.

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The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

A Semiotic Reinterpretation of The Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century

丛编： Value Inquiry Book Series, 卷： 369, Philosophy and Religion, 卷： 369, and Value Inquiry Book Series Online

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ISBN:: 9789004468016

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 17 Jul 2021

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