Gandhi and Liberalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gandhi and Liberalism write by Vinit Haksar. This book was released on 2017-07-20. Gandhi and Liberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the main themes running through Gandhi’s life and work was the battle against evil. This book offers a fascinating reconstruction of Gandhi and the doctrine of Ahimsa or non-violence. Gandhi’s moral perfectionism is contrasted with other forms of perfectionism, but the book stresses that Gandhi also offered a doctrine of the second best. Following Gandhi, the author argues that outward violence with compassion is intrinsically not as good as non-violence with compassion, but it is a second best that is sometimes a necessary evil in an imperfect world. The book provides an illuminating analysis of coercion, non-co-operation, civil disobedience and necessary evil, comparing Gandhi’s ideas with that of some of the leading western moral, legal and political philosophers. Further, some of his important ideas are shown to have relevance for the working of the Indian Constitution. This book will be essential for scholars and researchers in moral, legal and political philosophy, Gandhi studies, political science and South Asian studies.
Rights, Communities, and Disobedience
Rights, Communities, and Disobedience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights, Communities, and Disobedience write by Vinit Haksar. This book was released on 2003. Rights, Communities, and Disobedience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tensions between individual rights and group interests, as well as between interests of different groups, are critical issues in multicultural societies. In this book, Haksar offers a theoretical framework for thinking about these dilemmas, particularly in light of Gandhi's ideas.
Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy
Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy write by Sanjay Lal. This book was released on 2019-03-13. Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With an intense focus on both the depth and practicality of Mahatma Gandhi’s political and religious thought this book reveals the valuable insights Gandhi offers to anyone concerned about the prospects of liberalism in the contemporary world. Gandhi’s Religious Thought and Liberal Democracy makes the case that for Gandhi, in stark contrast to commonly accepted liberal orthodoxy, religion is indispensable to the public life, and indeed the official activity, of any genuinely liberal society. Gandhi scholars, political theorists, and activist members of a lay audience alike will all find much to digest, comment upon, and be motivated by in this work.
Gandhi and Modern Indian Liberals
Gandhi and Modern Indian Liberals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gandhi and Modern Indian Liberals write by Himanshu Bourai. This book was released on 2004. Gandhi and Modern Indian Liberals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study is an endeavour to enquire into the nature and efficacy of liberal primacies and the extent to which Gandhi imbibed them. Gandhi does not emerge as a liberal in the parlance of well stirred ideaological congruence. And yet he remains the most outstanding exponent and activist of the liberal spiirt. He built upon this foundation, as innovative superstructure. It is not always possible to expect an activist of the national movement to scrupulously adhere a specific ideology. Gandhi renovated the liberal thinking and sought to transform the idiom and primacies of Philosophy of nationalism and creative protest.
The Common Cause
The Common Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Common Cause write by Leela Gandhi. This book was released on 2014-03-19. The Common Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional. But, she also illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual discipline. Reframing the way we think about some of the most consequential political events of the era, Gandhi presents moral imperfectionism as the lost tradition of global democratic thought and offers it to us as a key to democracy’s future. In doing so, she defends democracy as a shared art of living on the other side of perfection and mounts a postcolonial appeal for an ethics of becoming common.
