On Gandhi

by Bart Gruzalski

This brief text assists students in understanding Gandhi's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534583741
• ISBN13: 9780534583743
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Gandhi: The Nonviolent Revolutionary

After a short account of why Gandhi's life was that of a moral exemplar, I turn to Gandhi's account of nonviolence. I provide an account of Gandhi's nonviolence and nonviolent noncooperation, defend Gandhi's nonviolence against scholarly criticisms, and summarize Gandhi's account of nonviolence toward animals. I next turn to Gandhi's vision of how we should live. I show that Gandhi championed equality, women's rights, full employment, appropriate technology, decentralization, and the independent self-reliant village, while criticizing communism, capitalism, and globalization. Gandhi's blueprint for how we should live involved simplicity, nonviolence, and community. I assess this blueprint on economic, ethical, social, and environmental grounds by addressing pertinent objections. I end the book with a discussion of Gandhi's advocacy of "inner work" to free ourselves from fears and desires that support socially and environmentally degrading activities.