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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence is a 1969 book about Mahatma Gandhi by the German-born American developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction [1] and the U.S. National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion .
- Erik Homburger Erikson
- 1969
In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
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- Erik H. Erikson
Apr 17, 1993 · Gandhi's Truth, even more brilliantly than its predecessor, Young Man Luther, shows that psychoanalytic theory, in the hands of an interpreter both resourceful and wise, can immeasurably enrich the study of 'great lives' and of much else besides. . . .
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- Erik Homburger Erikson
- $21.16
- W. W. Norton & Company
Dec 8, 2011 · In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience
- 1 Moral Criticism and Gandhian Ahimsa
- 2 The Possibility of Objective Moral Truths in Gandhi
- 3 The Gandhian Exemplar
Professor Bilgrami has argued that ahimsa led Gandhi to a rejection of moral criticism. Consequently, Gandhi rejected the relationship between a moral judgement and a moral rule/conviction. At a “…deeper realm of violence… the very idea of principles and doctrines are subtly and indirectly implicated” (Bilgrami 2011, p. 98). Gandhi rejected univers...
It is interesting that Gandhi should have observed that the role of criticism in the moral life was somewhat close to that of a sentinel/lighthouse issuing warnings of impending dangers to the good human life. What then about the Gandhian position on moral principles? To begin with, it is necessary to note that Gandhi made a distinction between two...
In Professor Bilgrami’s account, Gandhi rejected moral principles/doctrines per se. Consequently, he needed to bridge the philosophical distance between the demand that one’s moral convictions be relevant to others and the sequestering of moral convictions entirely to oneself (somewhat like matters of taste). Gandhi did this by employing the notion...
- Bindu Puri
- drbindupuri11@yahoo.com
- 2015
Apr 17, 1993 · In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary...
In this acclaimed study of Mahatma Gandhi, the renowned psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically, as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant nonviolence and India the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
