| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Gandhi's use of Platonic, Christian, and Stoic values : reinterpretation, experimentation, and mere convergence -- Emotional detachment : how to square it with love of family and all humans in the Stoics and Gandhi -- Emotional detachment : how to square it with politics in the Stoics and Gandhi -- Gandhi's individual freedom, and Isaiah Berlin on Zeno's sour grapes -- Nonviolence as universal love : origins and Gandhi's supplements to Tolstoy : dilemmas, successes, and failures -- From universal love to human rights? -- Persona and svadharma : is duty universalizable or unique to the individual? -- Hesitations about general rules in morality -- Moral conscience -- Restrictions on private property in Gandhi, Christianity, Plato, and the Stoics -- Isaiah Berlin's Stoic revolution : depoliticization -- Gandhi's philosophical credentials, his lapses, and his distance from other philosophers |
| Summary |
Richard Sorabji presents a study of Gandhi's philosophy in comparison with Christian and Stoic thought. He shows that Gandhi was a true philosopher, who not only aimed to give a consistent self-critical rationale for his views, but also thought himself obliged to live by what he taught |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 fast |
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Philosophy, Indic.
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Stoics.
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Christian philosophy.
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stoicism.
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Christian philosophy
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Philosophy
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Philosophy, Indic
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Stoics
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Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
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History & Archaeology.
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South Asia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191745812 |
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0191745812 |
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