Nicholas stuart gray biography of mahatma
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RECONCILING GANDHI’S PERPETRATOR AND VICTIMHOOD PERSPECTIVES ON VIOLENCE
Authors
- Michael Allen East Tennessee State University
Keywords:
Ahimsa, Intersectionality, Knowledge, Nonviolence, Perpetrators, Transcendence, Truth, Victims, Violence, himsaAbstract
In this article, I offer not only an alternative but also a superior account of how we might reconcile Gandhi’s perpetrator and victimhood perspectives on violence (himsa). Appealing to both critical social studies and philosophy, I emphasize both the intersections of these two perspectives and their intersection with his metaphysics. I reject the standard approaches to reconciling Gandhi’s commitment to nonviolence with his remarks on the occasional necessity and unavoidability of violence. Instead, I focus on how truth-seekers use their p
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The Curated Links at 3QD *
In reading Gandhi recently I have been struck by the integrity of his ideas. I don't mean simply that he was a man of integrity in the sense that he tried to make his actions live up to his ideals, though perhaps in fact he tried more than most to do so. I mean something more abstract: that his thought itself was highly integrated, his ideas about very specific political strategies in specific contexts flowed (and in his mind necessarily flowed) from ideas that were very remote from politics. They flowed from the most abstract epistemological and methodological commitments. This quality of his thought sometimes gets lost because, on the one hand, the popular interest in him has been keen to find a man of great spirituality and uniqueness and, on the other, the social scientist’s and historian’s interest in him has sought out a nationalist leader with a strikingly effective method of non-violent political action. It has been common for some decades no
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List of authors by name: G
The following is a List of authors by name whose last names begin with G:
Abbreviations: ch = children's; d = drama, screenwriting; f = fiction; nf = non-fiction; p = poetry, song lyrics
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z
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Ga–Gb
[edit]- Jostein Gaarder (born 1952, Norway, f/ch)
- Gaariye (1949–2012, Somaliland/Norway, p)
- Diana Gabaldon (born 1952, US, f)
- Ekaterine Gabashvili (1851–1938, Russian E/USSR, nf)
- Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873, France, f/nf)
- Pierre Gabriel (1933–2015, France/Switzerland, nf)
- Vladimir Gaćinović (1890–1917, Austria-Hungary/Switzerland, nf)
- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973, Italy,