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008 120307s2012 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780226768823 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aDS481.G3$bS582 2012
082 00 $a188$223
100 1 $aSorabji, Richard,$eauthor.
245 10 $aGandhi and the Stoics :$bmodern experiments on ancient values /$cRichard Sorabji.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2012.
263 $a1209
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
600 10 $aGandhi,$cMahatma,$d1869-1948.
650 0 $aStoics.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Comparative.