Various Configurations of "Four Noble Truths"
as Comparisons |
Marx
poverty and oppression
(problem) |
capitalistic class conflict
(cause) |
communism (solution) |
revolution (method) |
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Plato
vice (problem) |
ignorance (cause) |
virtue (solution) |
knowledge
(method) |
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Psychotherapy
symptom (problem) |
abnormality (cause) |
intervention
(solution) |
prescription (method) |
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Naturalism
struggle (problem) |
environment (cause) |
survival of the fit (solution) |
selection (method) |
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Postmodernism |
Existentialism
hopelessness (problem) |
absence of meaning (cause) |
made up meanings (solution) |
choice- "let's get on with it" Sartre
(method) |
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Buddhism |
Christianity |
Humanist? |
Islam
day of judgment (problem) |
bad choices (cause) |
obedience (solution) |
Qur'an (method) |
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Hinduism
life problems (problem) |
illusion (cause) |
enlightenment (solution) |
yoga /
mysticism (method) |
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Eigenwelt
non-OMNIs (problem) |
fundamental ontology (cause) |
assert self-priority (solution) |
work, woo, make, lie, manipulate, take |
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Spiritism
problems (problem) |
disharmony (cause) |
harmony with spirits and nature
(solution) |
Shaman (method) |
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Other
(problem) |
(cause) |
(solution) |
(method) |
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