Tag: Five Precepts

Buddhism

What does it mean to be a Buddhist?

In β€œWhat Does it Mean to Be a Marxist?”, Norman Geras distinguishes β€œthree meanings of β€˜being a Marxist’”: personal, intellectual, and sociopolitical. He writes that β€œfor someone to be a Marxist, in the first – personal – sense …, he or she must (a) subscribe to a significant selection of recognized Marxist beliefs and (b) describe him or herself as a Marxist”. About the intellectual meaning he writes that β€œa person can work – as writer, political publicist, academic, thinker, researcher – within the intellectual tradition begun by Marx and Engels and developed by later figures”, and about the sociopolitical...