Gandhi and the Stoics : modern experiments on ancient values / Richard Sorabji.

Author/creator Sorabji, Richard author.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Descriptionxiv, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.
LCCN 2012010014
ISBN9780226768823 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0226768821 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Standard identifier# 40021618444

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Joyner General Stacks DS481.G3 S582 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold