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Gandhi and the Stoics - Modern Experiments on Ancient Values (Hardcover)
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Gandhi and the Stoics - Modern Experiments on Ancient Values (Hardcover)
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Richard Sorabji presents a fascinating study of Gandhi's philosophy
in comparison with Christian and Stoic thought. Sorabji shows that
Gandhi was a true philosopher. He not only aimed to give a
consistent self-critical rationale for his views, but also thought
himself obliged to live by what he taught-something that he had in
common with the ancient Greek and Christian ethical traditions.
Understanding his philosophy helps with re-assessing the
consistency of his positions and life. Gandhi was less influenced
by the Stoics than by Socrates, Christ, Christian writers, and
Indian thought. But whereas he re-interpreted those, he discovered
the congeniality of the Stoics too late to re-process them. They
could supply even more of the consistency he sought. He could show
them the effect of putting their unrealised ideals into actual
practice. They from the Cynics, he from the Bhagavadgita, learnt
the indifference of most objectives. But both had to square that
with their love for all humans and their political engagement.
Indifference was to both a source of freedom. Gandhi was converted
to non-violence by Tolstoy's picture of Christ. But he addressed
the sacrifice it called for, and called even protective killing
violent. He was nonetheless not a pacifist, because he recognized
the double-bind of rival duties, and the different duties of
different individuals, which was a Stoic theme. For both Gandhi and
the Stoics it accompanied doubts about universal rules. Sorabji's
expert understanding of these ethical traditions allows him to
offer illuminating new perspectives on a key intellectual figure of
the modern world, and to show the continuing resonance of ancient
philosophical ideas.
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