Pax Gandhiana : the political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
- Nwe Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018
- xii,220p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this book, Anthony J. Parel makes the controversial argument that despite Gandhi's contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, his most significant contribution was that as a political philosopher. He dubs this philosophy Pax Gandhiana, a peaceful political order that requires the confluence of the canonical ends of life-politics and economics (artha), ethics (dharma), forms of pleasure (kama), and the pursuit of spiritual transcendence (moksha).In this work, Anthony J. Parel makes the controversial argument that despite Gandhi's contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, his most significant contribution was that as a political philosopher.
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Gandhi, Mahatma Political and social views Political philosophy Political science