Practicing Success
Assertion: Some Buddhist text reveals that the institution of kingship was based on human choice. |
Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion. Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion. The Assertion is incorrect but the Reason is correct. The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect. |
The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect. |
The Buddhists also developed an alternative understanding of social inequalities, and of the institutions required to regulate social conflict. In a myth found in a text known as the Sutta Pitaka, they suggested that originally human beings did not have fully evolved bodily forms, nor was the world of plants fully developed. All beings lived in an idyllic state of peace, taking from nature only what they needed for each meal. |