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Gandhi and the Stoics

modern experiments on ancient values

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Gandhi and the Stoics
Richard Sorabji
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English
Pages
224

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Gandhi and the Stoics: modern experiments on ancient values
2012, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
188
Library of Congress
DS481.G3 S582 2012, DS481.G3S582 2012

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Pagination
pages cm
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25260000M
ISBN 10
0226768821
ISBN 13
9780226768823
LCCN
2012010014
OCLC/WorldCat
781278981

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