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
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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.
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*
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