The defining features of Gandhian nonviolence

M. P. Mathai

DSpace Principal
→
Colección de los Centros Asociados
→
México
→
Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas - DIE-Cinvestav - Cosecha
→
Ver ítem

dc.creator	M. P. Mathai
dc.date	2012
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-23T21:06:21Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-23T21:06:21Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=179426856006
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/118484
dc.description	The two basic principles or ideals that guided Gandhis life were truth and nonviolence. For him truth was God and realising this truth as God was the ultimate purpose of life. He expounded the proposition that truth could be realised only through nonviolence: Truth is the end and nonviolence the means. Gandhi gave his own definition and explanation of nonviolence which transcended conventional understanding of the concept. For Gandhi nonviolence was not a negative concept meaning non-injury or non-killing but a positive one which meant love in the sense of selfless service of ones fellow beings which included the entire creation. The essence of his arguments is that one must try to practise nonviolence in thought word and deed and to organise all life activities on its basis, and that would bring in unprecedented and revolutionary changes in human life. The paper attempts to codify and put in perspective the defining features of nonviolence as understood, explained and practised by Mahatma Gandhi.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Instituto Politécnico Nacional
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1794
dc.rights	Innovación Educativa
dc.source	Innovación Educativa (México) Num.60 Vol.12
dc.subject	Educación
dc.subject	Gandhis nonviolence
dc.subject	contemporary nonviolence
dc.subject	social change
dc.subject	ethics
dc.subject	nonviolent future
dc.title	The defining features of Gandhian nonviolence
dc.type	artículo científico