A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Alienation

Abstract

The term 'alienation' · has many different meanings in everyday life, science, and philosophy. Alienation is the act or result of the act through which something, or somebody, becomes strange to something, or somebody, else. In our days, since science and technology have developed, human beings may face the very actual problem of alienation . Alienation is not a problem of what a man can have but a problem of what a man is. It is a problem of man's attitude towards hims.elf and towards the society in which he lives. This paper will discuss alienation as a philosophical problem and will present the way that can cure alienation and it is provided by the Buddhist tradition in Myanmar society