Buddhist Concept of Ideal Life Critical Study (Paperback)

Introduction 1. Nature of Global Market Culture and Its Problems Human society has undergone changes over period of time; from the primitive hunting and gathering societies to the modern electronic age where global market culture is rampant. Every society has culture for distinguishing them from others and for being a means of interaction between members. Under primitive society general cultures were simply based on hunting activities and farming. While living and migrating between jungles to forest, mountain to plateau, canal to river; ways of people's life were very simply determined by natural phenomena surrounding them as all natural phenomena appear to be sacred and mysterious for them; hence they were somehow scared to such natural phenomena. As a result, they started offering worship to natural phenomena in the hope that their honesty and respect to natural phenomena by means of ritual performing would return them well-being. The relation between man and man w'as characterized by agreement for whatever they approved to protect them forni invasion and to give them cooperation in hunting animals. While relation to nature appeared to be very close as they lived within forest and found what benetlted them from within. Though their relation to animals to, some extent was friendless, yei they expressed mercy by not hunting animals at the time of laying egg, not hunting pregnant animals, for instance. Society is created out of the need of the satisfaction of basic needs of human beings and is formed by the relation behveen and among the individuals. In the developed society, this relation is more'complicated. while, in simple society, this relation is veiy simple. However, due to the globalization, the dc\ eloped and undeveloped societies are now associalcd.^w ith the ad\ancemenl of science and technology. Science bears tremendous weight and credibility for people in general,