Peace, Value, and Wisdom

George David Miller teaches philosophy at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois and is the author of three other texts in the Value Inquiry Book Series: An Idiosyncratic Ethics; Or, the Lauramachean Ethics; On Education and Values: In Praise of Pariahs and Nomads (co-authored with Conrad P. Pritscher); and Negotiating toward Truth: The Extinction of Teachers and Students. He is co-author of Global Ethical Options (Weatherhill) and author of Children of Kosen-Rufu (EM Press), his first book of poetry. Miller has received several teaching awards, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Illinois Professor of the Year in 1997 and the Award of Honor from Soka University of Japan in 2000. He currently serves as editor of two VIBS special series (Philosophy of Education and Daisaku Ikeda Studies) and co-founded the African American Philosophy special series. He has served as founding director of the graduate philosophy program at Lewis University and is the founder of the Scholars Academy at the same institution.

• List of IllustrationsForeword by Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr.AcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION1. The Life Work of Daisaku Ikeda: Peace Through Education2. The Burden of Introduction3. Organization of the Book4. The Search for Wisdom: Spirituality in Education5. Soka EducationPART ONEBLENDING BUDDHISM AND HUMANISMONE The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin1. Nichiren Daishonin and His Impact on Ikeda2. The Buddhism Nichiren Daishonin Inherits3. 1253: The Revolution Begins4. The Egalitarian and Inclusive Nature of EnlightenmentTWO The Humanism of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi1. Challenging Authority2. Humanist Manifesto I and Makiguchi’s Philosophy of EducationA. Specific Needs, Specific Philosophies of LifeB. Happiness as Individual Fulfillment and Shared ExperienceC. Value CreationD. The Reorientation of Responsibility3. Makiguchi’s Philosophy of Education: A Brief EvaluationTHREE Five Kinds of EyesFOUR The Ten States of Being1. From the Prison of Hell to the Eternity of BuddhahoodA. Hell (The First Evil Path)B. Hungry Spirits (The Second Evil Path)C. Animals (The Third Evil Path)D. Asura or Warlike Demons (The Fourth Evil Path)E. Human BeingsF. Heavenly BeingsG. Voice-HearersH. Cause-Awakened OnesI. BodhisattvaJ. BuddhahoodFIVE Three Thousand Realms in a Single Moment of Life1. The 3,000 Possible Worlds or Ichinen Sanzen2. The Three Realms3. The Ten Factors 4. The 3,000 Worlds and the Holistic PersonSIX The Causality of Karma SEVEN The Nine Consciousnesses and the Greater and Lesser SelfEIGHT Kōsen-RufuNINE Value CreationTEN EnlightenmentPART TWOIKEDA’S MAJOR PRINCIPLES AND VIRTUESELEVEN Compassionate RevolutionTWELVE Cosmic CitizenshipTHIRTEEN Peaceful CompetitionFOURTEEN Completeness and Incompleteness 61FIFTEEN Self-MasterySIXTEEN Philosophically Based EducationSEVENTEEN Hope as a Moral VirtueEIGHTEEN Trust and HarmonyNINETEEN Faith and Ultimate MeaningTWENTY The SuperrationalPART THREEIMAGINARY DIALOGUESTWENTY-ONE Lao Tzu’s Hierarchy of Effective LeadershipTWENTY-TWO Plato’s Notion of Mass EnlightenmentTWENTY-THREE John Stuart Mill’s Higher and Lower PleasuresTWENTY-FOUR Alfred North Whitehead’s Inert IdeasTWENTY-FIVE John Dewey’s Participatory EducationTWENTY-SIX Antonio Gramsci’s Organic IntellectualTWENTY-SEVEN Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Tough-Mindedness and Tender-HeartednessTWENTY-EIGHT Paulo Freire’s Circles of CertaintyTWENTY-NINE Howard Gardner’s Multiple IntelligencesTHIRTY George David Miller’s Revolutionary BreaksPART FOURMEETING TODAY’S EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES ON IKEDA’S TERMSTHIRTY-ONE Chalk, Erasers, and Violence in the ClassroomTHIRTY-TWO Self-Esteem and the Enduring SelfTHIRTY-THREE Reductionism and CompartmentalizationTHIRTY-FOUR Nihilism and ApathyTHIRTY-FIVE IntoleranceCONCLUSION1. International Education2. School Systems3. The General Curriculum4. Teachers and Students5. Addendum Epilogue by Mark Roelof EleveldNotesBibliography1. Writings of Daisaku Ikeda2. Other Works CitedAbout the AuthorAppendix: PhotographsIndex 187