Table of Contents

Introduction: Gandhi's use of Platonic, Christian, and Stoic values: reinterpretation, experimentation, and mere convergence
1: Emotional detachment: how to square it with love of family and all humans in the Stoics and Gandhi
2: Emotional detachment: how to square with politics in the Stoics and Gandhi
3: Individual freedom: Gandhi's and Isaiah Berlin on Zeno's--sour grapes?
4: Non-violence as universal love: origins and Gandhi's supplements to Tolstoy--dilemmas, successes, and failures
5: From universal love to human rights?
6: Individual duty: persona, svadharma
7: General rules in morality
8: Moral conscience
9: Restrictions on private property in Gandhi, Christianity, Plato, and the Stoics
10: Isaiah Berlin's Stoic revolution: depoliticisation
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Richard Sorabji is author or editor of over 100 books in the History of Philosophy. Three authored books deal with the nature of the physical universe (Necessity, Cause and Blame; Time, Creation and the Continuum; Matter, Space and Motion). Four deal with Mind and Morals (Animal Minds and Human Morals; Emotion and Peace of Mind; Aristotle on Memory; Self: Individuality, Life and Death). He has written a
biography, Opening Doors, of the pioneer lawyer, Cornelia Sorabji. His next book will be Moral Conscience through the Ages. He is Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; Fellow and Emeritus Professor of King's College, London; former Director of the Institute
of Classical Studies, London, 1991-6; former President of the Aristotelian Society, 1985-6; and former Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 2000-2003.

Reviews

What is especially intriguing about the comparisons that Sorabji goes on to make is that, while the Stoics anchor their ethics in a more or less clear materialistic metaphysical framework, Gandhi does no such thing.
*Lloyd P. Gerson, The Philosophical Quarterly*

There is a curiosly popular conception of studies in ancient philosphy being "mere history of" philosophy as opposed to work citing more recent authors being the actual stuff. A less common but similarly limited misnomer is the replacement of good old "classical philology" with "study of antiquity". Gandhi and the Stoics could even enlighten sould shadowed by such limitations.
*Teemu Huttunen, Arctos*