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Gandhi and the Stoics : modern experiments on ancient values
- Title
- Gandhi and the Stoics : modern experiments on ancient values / Richard Sorabji.
- Author
- Sorabji, Richard.
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xiv, 224 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-1789
- ISBN
- 9780199644339 (hbk.)
- 0199644330 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012462605
- OCLC
- 794136190
- Author
- Sorabji, Richard.
- Title
- Gandhi and the Stoics : modern experiments on ancient values / Richard Sorabji.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-1789