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Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony

Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony

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General Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0521050154
ISBN13: 9780521050159
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 17 2007
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Anthony Parel affords a novel perspective on the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. He explores how Gandhi connected the spiritual with the temporal. As Parel points out 'being more things than one' is a good description of Gandhi and, with these words in mind, he shows how Gandhi, drawing on the Indian time-honoured theory of the purusharthas or 'the aims of life', fitted his ethical, political, aesthetic and religious ideas together. In this way Gandhi challenged the notion which prevailed in Indian society that a rift existed between the secular and the spiritual, the political and the contemplative life. Parel's revealing and insightful book shows how far-reaching were the effects of Gandhi's practical philosophy on Indian thought generally and how these have survived into the present.

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