ABSTRACT
Buddhism starts with reforming the inner human world-what we call the human revolution1-and moves on to society. If we want to halt the excesses of science and technology and save humanity from the crises confronting
contemporary civilization we can no longer merely treat the symptoms.” —Daisaku Ikeda
(Ikeda 2001a, 107) “The life and preaching of Jesus postulate the unceasing search for a
new kind of man in a qualitatively different society.” —Gustavo Gutierrez
(Gutierrez 1973, 231) “[T]he emancipation of the senses must accompany the emancipation of
consciousness, thus involving the totality of human existence. The individuals themselves must change in their very instincts and sensibilities if
they are to build, in association, a qualitatively different society.” —Herbert Marcuse (Marcuse 1972, 74)
“The Third World ought not to be content to define itself in terms of values which have preceded it. On the contrary, the underdeveloped
countries ought to do their utmost to find their own particular values and methods and a style which shall be particular to them.”
