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September 28, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

Over at Philosophy Bites:

Richard Sorabji discusses Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence with Nigel Warburton for this the 200th episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Biteshas now been downloaded more than 15 million times.

Listen to Richard Sorabji on Mahatma Gandhi as Philosopher

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Wonderful presentation of Gandhi and non violence. Got a lot from it. Normally don't get much but irritation out of philosophic discussion.

Posted by: James F Traynor | Sep 28, 2012 4:01:30 PM

The philosophical aspects of Gandhi's thought are well-treated in several books (keeping in mind that Gandhi was not a systematic thinker nor thought of himself as a philosopher as we would use that term today):

Bhikhu Parekh’s Gandhi’s Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination (1989), Margaret Chatterjee’s Gandhi’s Religious Thought (1983), and especially, Raghavan Iyer’s nonpareil study, The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi (1st ed., 1973; 2nd ed., 1983). Iyer's book also treats the metaphysical presuppositions, assumptions, and beliefs of his moral and political thought.

Akeel Bilgrami should be coming out with a book that is also about philosophical dimensions of Gandhi's views.

Finally, although Sorabji cites Gene Sharp on the efficacy of political nonviolence, the latest and by far the best study along these lines is Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (2011). A book of case studies from the 20th century provides a nice companion volume: Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash, eds. Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (2009).

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