Gandhi and the Stoics : modern experiments on ancient values / Richard Sorabji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorabji, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Indic.

Stoics.

Christian philosophy.

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Philosophy.

Gandhi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Modern experiments on ancient values

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-174581-2

0-19-964433-0