Gandhi’s philosophy and the quest for harmony甘地的哲学和对和谐的探索

ISBN: 9780521867153

作者: Anthony Parel

出版社: Cambridge Univ Pr

出版年: 2006-8

页数: 226

定价: 759.00元

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Anthony Parel affords a novel perspective on the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. He explores how Gandhi connected the spiritual with the temporal. As Parel points out 'being more things than one' is a good description of Gandhi and, with these words in mind, he shows how Gandhi, drawing on the Indian time-honoured theory of the purusharthas or 'the aims of life', fitted his ethical, political, aesthetic and religious ideas together. In this way Gandhi challenged the notion which prevailed in Indian society that a rift existed between the secular and the spiritual, the political and the contemplative life. Parel's revealing and insightful book shows how far-reaching were the effects of Gandhi's practical philosophy on Indian thought generally and how these have survived into the present.