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Pax Gandhiana - The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi (Hardcover)
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Pax Gandhiana - The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi (Hardcover)
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Notwithstanding 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.
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