Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr.
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
1. The Life Work of Daisaku Ikeda: Peace Through Education
2. The Burden of Introduction
3. Organization of the Book
4. The Search for Wisdom: Spirituality in Education
5. Soka Education
PART ONE
BLENDING BUDDHISM AND HUMANISM
ONE The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin
1. Nichiren Daishonin and His Impact on Ikeda
2. The Buddhism Nichiren Daishonin Inherits
3. 1253: The Revolution Begins
4. The Egalitarian and Inclusive Nature of Enlightenment
TWO The Humanism of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
1. Challenging Authority
2. Humanist Manifesto I and Makiguchi’s Philosophy of Education
A. Specific Needs, Specific Philosophies of Life
B. Happiness as Individual Fulfillment and Shared Experience
C. Value Creation
D. The Reorientation of Responsibility
3. Makiguchi’s Philosophy of Education: A Brief Evaluation
THREE Five Kinds of Eyes
FOUR The Ten States of Being
1. From the Prison of Hell to the Eternity of Buddhahood
A. Hell (The First Evil Path)
B. Hungry Spirits (The Second Evil Path)
C. Animals (The Third Evil Path)
D. Asura or Warlike Demons (The Fourth Evil Path)
E. Human Beings
F. Heavenly Beings
G. Voice-Hearers
H. Cause-Awakened Ones
I. Bodhisattva
J. Buddhahood
FIVE Three Thousand Realms in a Single Moment of Life
1. The 3,000 Possible Worlds or Ichinen Sanzen
2. The Three Realms
3. The Ten Factors
4. The 3,000 Worlds and the Holistic Person
SIX The Causality of Karma
SEVEN The Nine Consciousnesses and the Greater and Lesser Self
EIGHT Kōsen-Rufu
NINE Value Creation
TEN Enlightenment

PART TWO
IKEDA’S MAJOR PRINCIPLES AND VIRTUES
ELEVEN Compassionate Revolution
TWELVE Cosmic Citizenship
THIRTEEN Peaceful Competition
FOURTEEN Completeness and Incompleteness 61
FIFTEEN Self-Mastery
SIXTEEN Philosophically Based Education
SEVENTEEN Hope as a Moral Virtue
EIGHTEEN Trust and Harmony
NINETEEN Faith and Ultimate Meaning
TWENTY The Superrational
PART THREE
IMAGINARY DIALOGUES
TWENTY-ONE Lao Tzu’s Hierarchy of Effective Leadership
TWENTY-TWO Plato’s Notion of Mass Enlightenment
TWENTY-THREE John Stuart Mill’s Higher and Lower Pleasures
TWENTY-FOUR Alfred North Whitehead’s Inert Ideas
TWENTY-FIVE John Dewey’s Participatory Education
TWENTY-SIX Antonio Gramsci’s Organic Intellectual
TWENTY-SEVEN Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Tough-Mindedness and Tender-Heartedness
TWENTY-EIGHT Paulo Freire’s Circles of Certainty
TWENTY-NINE Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
THIRTY George David Miller’s Revolutionary Breaks

PART FOUR
MEETING TODAY’S EDUCATIONAL
CHALLENGES ON IKEDA’S TERMS
THIRTY-ONE Chalk, Erasers, and Violence in the Classroom
THIRTY-TWO Self-Esteem and the Enduring Self
THIRTY-THREE Reductionism and Compartmentalization
THIRTY-FOUR Nihilism and Apathy
THIRTY-FIVE Intolerance
CONCLUSION
1. International Education
2. School Systems
3. The General Curriculum
4. Teachers and Students
5. Addendum
Epilogue by Mark Roelof Eleveld
Notes
Bibliography
1. Writings of Daisaku Ikeda
2. Other Works Cited
About the Author
Appendix: Photographs
Index 187

About the Author

George David Miller teaches philosophy at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois and is the author of three other texts in the Value Inquiry Book Series: An Idiosyncratic Ethics; Or, the Lauramachean Ethics; On Education and Values: In Praise of Pariahs and Nomads (co-authored with Conrad P. Pritscher); and Negotiating toward Truth: The Extinction of Teachers and Students. He is co-author of Global Ethical Options (Weatherhill) and author of Children of Kosen-Rufu (EM Press), his first book of poetry. Miller has received several teaching awards, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Illinois Professor of the Year in 1997 and the Award of Honor from Soka University of Japan in 2000. He currently serves as editor of two VIBS special series (Philosophy of Education and Daisaku Ikeda Studies) and co-founded the African American Philosophy special series. He has served as founding director of the graduate philosophy program at Lewis University and is the founder of the Scholars Academy at the same institution.