Pax Gandhiana - 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 Pax Gandhiana write by Anthony J Parel. This book was released on 2018-01-02. Pax Gandhiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contribution is that as a political philosopher. While he is not often treated as such, Gandhi was, as Anthony J. Parel argues, a political philosopher sui generis, both in his philosophical method of constant self-criticism and his framework of philosophical analysis. Gandhi wrote daily on politics, but he did so as an activist; political philosophy was to him not just a way of understanding truths of political phenomena but was directly related to understanding those truths in action. If realized in action these truths would give rise to new political institutions, which in turn would create a corresponding peaceful political and social order. Parel dubs this order Pax Gandhiana. The main contention of Pax Gandhiana is that peace cannot be achieved by politics alone. Peace requires the confluence of the canonical ends of life: politics and economics (artha), ethics (dharma), forms of pleasure (kama), and the pursuit of spiritual transcendence (moksha). Modern political philosophy isolates politics from the other three ends, but Gandhi's originality, according to Parel, lies in the way that he brings all four together. In fact Gandhi's political philosophy is relevant not only to India but also to the rest of the world: it is a new type of sovereignty that harmonizes the interest of individual states with the community of states. Arguing against scholars who dispute a theoretical unity in Gandhi's writings, Parel suggests that Gandhi is the preeminent non-western political philosopher, and in this book he seeks to identify the conceptual framework of Gandhi's political philosophy, the Pax Gandhiana.
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan - 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 Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan write by Stefan Köck. This book was released on 2021-04-08. Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in “Shinto” as an alternative to Buddhism and what “Shinto” actually meant from a Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto shrines, an important step in the so called “Shintoization of shrines” including the development of a self-contained Shinto clergy.
Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony
Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony - 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 Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony write by Anthony Parel. This book was released on 2006-08-10. Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an interpretation of Gandhi's political philosophy, and how he strove to connect it with the four goals of life (purushartha). Anthony Parel argues that Gandhi's aim was the restoration of harmony and the removal of any opposition between the spiritual and the temporal, the political and the ethical.
Does India Negotiate?
Does India Negotiate? - 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 Does India Negotiate? write by Karthik Nachiappan. This book was released on 2019-09-13. Does India Negotiate? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. India plays a key role in addressing multilateral issues like climate change, terrorism, piracy, humanitarian crises, and nuclear disarmament. Scholarly work mapping India’s multilateral behaviour ranges from covering the United Nations to a wide range of fora where India seeks to influence issues that affect its security and development. Yet, there has been no serious exploration of how India concretely negotiates international rules. In this book, Karthik Nachiappan investigates how India negotiated four key multilateral agreements: The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, The Framework Convention on Climate Change, The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and the Uruguay Round Trade Agreement. Based on untapped primary sources including archival documents detailing how negotiations transpired, official records of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, a series of interviews with former Indian negotiators, and newspaper sources, Does India Negotiate? demonstrates that India’s multilateral behaviour is fundamentally strategic—working to shape and ratify international rules that advance core interests while resisting rules that harm those interests.
Culture, Citizenship, and Community
Culture, Citizenship, and Community - 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 Culture, Citizenship, and Community write by Joseph H. Carens. This book was released on 2000. Culture, Citizenship, and Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text seeks to contribute to debates about multiculturalism and democratic theory. It reflects upon the ways in which claims about culture and identity are advanced by immigrants, national minorities, aboriginals and groups in different societies.
