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Title: Intikhab-e-Zindagi (Choose Life) by Arnold Toynbee, Daisaku Ikeda, Manzoor Ahmed ISBN: 0-19-577401-9 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 Format: Unknown Binding List Price(USD): $22.50

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Summary: Outstanding Insights From Two Intellectual Powerhouses
Comment: This book is a thought-provoking discussion between an eminent historian and philosopher and an influential religious leader, who represent different traditions but share the same commitment to finding answers to the urgent and profound questions that confront humanity. It covers a range of topics: the environment, the intellect, sexuality, health and welfare, man as a social animal, arms and war, religion's role, and the nature of good and evil.

According to the authors, "a human being's perennial spiritual task is to overcome egotism by expanding his ego until it becomes coextensive with the ultimate reality, from which it is, in truth, inseparable." They believe that "spiritual exertion, made by individual human beings, is the only effective means of social change for the better," and that "Changes of institutions are effective only insofar as they are symptoms and consequences of the spiritual self-transformation of the persons whose relations with each other are the network that constitutes human society."

Arnold J. Toynbee, raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and Daisaku Ikeda, a product of East Asian culture and a Buddhist, both recognize that human survival is threatened by our own capacity to destroy the natural environment and by the imbalance between our moral immaturity and technological prowess.

The two men posit an underlying choice in the way humankind can respond to such universal challenges as burgeoning population, dwindling natural resources, and technological sophistication. They explore the dilemma facing the individual and society: self-mastery or self-destruction. Their search is less for abstract answers than how individuals can live in such a way as to derive meaning from the real world.

Compiled from two years of discussion and correspondence between the authors, this volume has been widely acclaimed as a major contribution to the ongoing debate on the flaws of modern civilization.