Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the Enlightenment Ballantine Books Considerable attention is given in

Considerable attention is given in this book to the incidents that really began the war in the Pacific and to the internal conflict within Japan

The interweaving of religion and morality

It argues early medieval authors and readers actively deliberated on abortion and a cluster of related questions

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Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the Enlightenment Ballantine Books Considerable attention is given inThis book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, tightly held ideas from 'the enlightenment' rationality, individuality, equality and secularity are considered as sources of suffering: technocracy, broken politics and 'moral acrimony'. Freedom lies not in accepting or rejecting these views, but in seeing where they've become dogmas, feeding cultural