[Buddha-l] The Malaise of Modernity

[Dan Lusthaus]

> Taylor's concern with instrumental reasoning is that data collection about
> such things as physical health and psychological well-being tends to focus
on
> parts and to ignore the whole person.

You mean he is anti-Buddhist? Preferring the myth of "whole person" (a type
of atmavada) to breaking a person (pudgala) down into its causative
components (skandhas, ayatanas, dhatus, etc.)?

Dan