THE FEASIBILITY OF THE SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (DE) AND BUDDHISM IN THE WORLD: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1

Abstract

Sustainable development is the most significant problem discussed by intellectuals of many disciplines in the world. Max Horkheimer and Adorno in their magnum opus, Dialectic of Enlightenment (2002) discuss the problems of wellbeing of humanity related to sustainable development from History of Western world in general and Enlightenment period in special. The thinkers of Frankfurt School elaborately study causes for problems for wellbeing of humanity and analyze the effects of positivistic scientific enlightenment of the Western world on ordinary human beings. On the one hand, the analysis of Max Horkheimer and Adorno reveal the causes for the problems of wellbeing of humanity and identify root cause for the problems as the dominating attitude of human beings from Jewish & Greek mythologies, one the other hand, Buddhist metaphysics, ethics and psychology are against the causes for the problems of sustainable development. Buddhism, one of the successful religious and philosophical systems has contributed a lot to wellbeing of humanity in the past in Asia and its contributions are felt relatively very small from Modern period in the Western world. The enlightenment of Max Horkheimer and Adorno sheds light on understanding of problems of sustainable development in full scale. This Paper examines feasibility of the solution for the problems of sustainable development embedded in Buddhism with assistance of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

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Ratnasabapathy Premkumar

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Ratnasabapathy Premkumar (2017). THE FEASIBILITY OF THE SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (DE) AND BUDDHISM IN THE WORLD: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS. Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities, 6(1), 35-47. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-219440