Gandhi and the Stoics
Subtitle: modern experiments on ancient values
By: Richard Sorabji
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226768823
Subjects: Comparative Philosophy; Stoics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Gandhi's use of Platonic, Christian, and Stoic values : reinterpretation, experimentation, and mere convergence; title: Emotional detachment : how to square it with love of family and all humans in the Stoics and Gandhi; title: Emotional detachment : how to square it with politics in the Stoics and Gandhi; title: Gandhi's individual freedom, and Isaiah Berlin on Zeno's "sour grapes"; title: Nonviolence as universal love : origins and Gandhi's supplements to Tolstoy : dilemmas, successes, and failures; title: From universal love to human rights?; title: Persona and svadharma : is duty universalizable or unique to the individual?; title: Hesitations about general rules in morality; title: Moral conscience; title: Restrictions on private property in Gandhi, Christianity, Plato, and the Stoics; title: Isaiah Berlin's Stoic revolution : depoliticization; title: Gandhi's philosophical credentials, his lapses, and his distance from other philosophers.