The moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi /
Iyer, Raghavan, 1930-1986
The moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi / Mahatma Gandhi Raghavan N. Iyer - New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 2000. - xiii, 449 p. ; 22 cm - Oxford India paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421) and index
CONTENTS: Introduction -- The indictment of modern civilization -- The purification of politics -- The need for absolute values and for vows -- Human nature, progress and perfectibility -- Individual conscience and heroism in society -- Satya absolute and relative truth - - Ahimsa nonviolence as a creed and a policy -- Satya and Ahimsa the relation between truth and nonviolence -- Satyagraha active and passive resistance -- The scope and significance of Satyagraha -- Swaraj and swadeshi self- rule and self-reliance -- Means and ends in politics -- Assessment.
Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi and brings out the subtlety, potency and universal import of Gandhi's political ethic, in theory and in practice.
0195651952
2005283471
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
Nonviolence
Political ethics
The moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi / Mahatma Gandhi Raghavan N. Iyer - New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 2000. - xiii, 449 p. ; 22 cm - Oxford India paperbacks .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421) and index
CONTENTS: Introduction -- The indictment of modern civilization -- The purification of politics -- The need for absolute values and for vows -- Human nature, progress and perfectibility -- Individual conscience and heroism in society -- Satya absolute and relative truth - - Ahimsa nonviolence as a creed and a policy -- Satya and Ahimsa the relation between truth and nonviolence -- Satyagraha active and passive resistance -- The scope and significance of Satyagraha -- Swaraj and swadeshi self- rule and self-reliance -- Means and ends in politics -- Assessment.
Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi and brings out the subtlety, potency and universal import of Gandhi's political ethic, in theory and in practice.
0195651952
2005283471
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
Nonviolence
Political ethics