Religion, Politics and Public Good: a Buddhist Perspective
Location
Multimedia Hall, Bunch Library
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
16-9-2009 7:00 PM
Description
Professor Hershock will apply Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence.
Peter Hershock, from The East-West Center, is Coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program. He has earned degrees from Yale University (B.A., Philosophy) and the University of Hawaii (Ph.D., Asian and Comparative Philosophy). His primary scholarly interests lie in investigating the philosophical implications of Buddhist practice, especially the Chan tradition, and on making use of Buddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues. In addition to publishing in such academic journals as Philosophy East and West and the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, he is the author of: Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Chan Buddhism; Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age; an edited volume Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium; and Chan Buddhism.
Recommended Citation
Hershock, Peter, "Religion, Politics and Public Good: a Buddhist Perspective" (2009). Humanities Symposium. 14.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2009/2009/14
Religion, Politics and Public Good: a Buddhist Perspective
Multimedia Hall, Bunch Library
Professor Hershock will apply Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence.
Peter Hershock, from The East-West Center, is Coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program. He has earned degrees from Yale University (B.A., Philosophy) and the University of Hawaii (Ph.D., Asian and Comparative Philosophy). His primary scholarly interests lie in investigating the philosophical implications of Buddhist practice, especially the Chan tradition, and on making use of Buddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues. In addition to publishing in such academic journals as Philosophy East and West and the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, he is the author of: Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Chan Buddhism; Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age; an edited volume Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium; and Chan Buddhism.
Comments
Convo: AL