Research Catalog

Title

The virtue of nonviolence : from Gautama to Gandhi / Nicholas F. Gier.

Author

Gier, Nicholas F., 1944-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.

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Details

Description

xv, 222 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "In The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that virtue ethics is the best option for constructive postmodern philosophy and that Gandhi's own thought is best viewed in light of this tradition.
• He supports this position by formulating Gandhi's ethics of nonviolence as a virtue ethics, giving a Buddhist interpretation of Gandhi's philosophy, and presenting Gandhi as a constructive postmodern thinker. Also included is an assessment of the saints of nonviolence - Buddha, Christ, King, and Gandhi - and a charismatic theory of the nature of the saints."--Jacket.

Series Statement

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought

Uniform Title

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought

Subject

• Nonviolence > Philosophy
• Nonviolence > Religious aspects
• Non-violence
• Philosophie
• Éthique
• Aspect religieux

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Gandhi as a postmodern thinker -- Nonviolence in Jainism and Hinduism -- Vedānta, Ātman, and Gandhi -- The Buddha and pragmatic nonviolence -- Experiments with truth -- The aesthetics of virtue -- Gandhi, Confucius, and virtue aesthetics -- Rules, vows, and virtues -- The virtue of nonviolence -- The saints of nonviolence : Buddha, Christ, Gandhi, King.

ISBN

• 0791459497
• 9780791459492
• 0791459500
• 9780791459508

LCCN

2003042553

OCLC

• ocm51631655
• 51631655
• SCSB-8806313

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library