Q : Buddhism and Social Philosophy
Some argue that Buddhism offers no social philosophy. However, this argument makes no sense since it all depends on how we define social philosophy. If social philosophy refers to social morality that governs people’s behaviors, Buddhism has many teachings on this sense, like The Five Precepts and The Noble Eightfold Path. But if the social philosophy refers to the way to organize the structure of society, Buddhism stands outside.
Buddhism suggests that a good society is one where all the people are good people from within. Each person improves himself/ herself from within, the whole society will become a well-modeled society. Buddhism focuses more on individual than the system, stressing that the problems of human beings should be corrected within human beings but not in the system. The Buddha teaches that the best society is one with a democracy of socialism administrated by people who are concerned a lot about the well-beings of its people.
Q : Buddhism and Social PhilosophySome argue that Buddhism offers no social philosophy. However, this argument makes no sense since it all depends on how we define social philosophy. If social philosophy refers to social morality that governs people’s behaviors, Buddhism has many teachings on this sense, like The Five Precepts and The Noble Eightfold Path. But if the social philosophy refers to the way to organize the structure of society, Buddhism stands outside.Buddhism suggests that a good society is one where all the people are good people from within. Each person improves himself/ herself from within, the whole society will become a well-modeled society. Buddhism focuses more on individual than the system, stressing that the problems of human beings should be corrected within human beings but not in the system. The Buddha teaches that the best society is one with a democracy of socialism administrated by people who are concerned a lot about the well-beings of its people.
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