The Core of Gandhi's Philosophy
Author: Unto Tähtinen
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780836405163
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Author: Unto Tähtinen
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780836405163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony J Parel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0190491469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNotwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contribution is that as a political philosopher. While he is not often treated as such, Gandhi was, as Anthony J. Parel argues, a political philosopher sui generis, both in his philosophical method of constant self-criticism and his framework of philosophical analysis. Gandhi wrote daily on politics, but he did so as an activist; political philosophy was to him not just a way of understanding truths of political phenomena but was directly related to understanding those truths in action. If realized in action these truths would give rise to new political institutions, which in turn would create a corresponding peaceful political and social order. Parel dubs this order Pax Gandhiana. The main contention of Pax Gandhiana is that peace cannot be achieved by politics alone. Peace requires the confluence of the canonical ends of life: politics and economics (artha), ethics (dharma), forms of pleasure (kama), and the pursuit of spiritual transcendence (moksha). Modern political philosophy isolates politics from the other three ends, but Gandhi's originality, according to Parel, lies in the way that he brings all four together. In fact Gandhi's political philosophy is relevant not only to India but also to the rest of the world: it is a new type of sovereignty that harmonizes the interest of individual states with the community of states. Arguing against scholars who dispute a theoretical unity in Gandhi's writings, Parel suggests that Gandhi is the preeminent non-western political philosopher, and in this book he seeks to identify the conceptual framework of Gandhi's political philosophy, the Pax Gandhiana.
Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0674074858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one’s duty to act is the ultimate “Gandhian moment.”
Author: Dhawan Gopinath Dhawan
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1406732001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: New Academic Science
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781781833179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a compilation of some of the famous quotes coined by the legendary Mahatma Gandhi and brought out on his 150th Birth Anniversary. Mahatma Gandhi was an institution in himself. He has been an inspiration to many world leaders who have followed his principles towards humanity, self-reliance and sacrifice.We believe that these quotes will enrich the knowledge of generations and those people who wish to take message and learn from his quotes.
Author: B. N. Ray
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13:
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Author: Ajay Skaria
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2016-02-08
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 1452949808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality centered on some form of autonomy, the Kantian term for the everyday sovereignty that rational beings exercise by granting themselves universal law. But for Gandhi, such equality is an “equality of sword”—profoundly violent not only because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized) but also because those included lose the power to love (which requires the surrender of autonomy or, more broadly, sovereignty). Gandhi professes instead a politics organized around dharma, or religion. For him, there can be “no politics without religion.” This religion involves self-surrender, a freely offered surrender of autonomy and everyday sovereignty. For Gandhi, the “religion that stays in all religions” is satyagraha—the agraha (insistence) on or of satya (being or truth). Ajay Skaria argues that, conceptually, satyagraha insists on equality without exception of all humans, animals, and things. This cannot be understood in terms of sovereignty: it must be an equality of the minor.
Author: Anuradha Veeravalli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1317130987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the significance of Gandhi’s thought and life to our times is undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker. Despite an overwhelming body of scholarship and literature on his life and thought the presuppositions of Gandhi’s experiments, the systematic nature of his intervention in modern political theory and his method have not previously received sustained attention. Addressing this lacuna, the book contends that Gandhi’s critique of modern civilization, the presuppositions of post-Enlightenment political theory and their epistemological and metaphysical foundations is both comprehensive and systematic. Gandhi’s experiments with truth in the political arena during the Indian Independence movement are studied from the point of view of his conscious engagement with method and theory rather than merely as a personal creed, spiritual position or moral commitment. The author shows how Gandhi’s experiments are illustrative of his theoretical position, and how they form the basis of his opposition to the foundations of modern western political theory and the presuppositions of the modern nation state besides envisioning the foundations of an alternative modernity for India, and by its example, for the world.
Author: Gummadi Veerraju
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788186921043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetrieving A Range Of Gandhi S Social, Economic, Moral, Spiritual, Cultural And Political Ideas From Various Sources, This Work Gauges The Relevance Of Gandhi And Gandhism In The Dehumanized, Fragmented World Of Moral Decay And Unbridled Consumerism.