Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi

For this paperback, Thomas Merton selected the basic statements of principle and interpretation which make up Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (ahimsa) and non-violent action (satyagraha). For many, throughout the world, Mohandas Gandhi stands as the greatest figure of the 20th Century. In his long introduction to this book-and it is one of his most challenging essays-Father Merton shows how Gandhi linked the thought of East and West in his search for universal truth, and how, for him, non-violence sprang from realization of spiritual unity in the individual. Merton relates Gandhi's Ahmisa to tradtional Hindu Dharma, to the Greek and our own concepts of personal freedom, and to the thinking of Thomas Aquinas and later Catholic show more theologians on conscience, good-and -evil, and peace.

The Ghandi text follows that established by the Navajivan Trust. Its sectons deal with 'Principles of non-violence,' 'Non-violence, true and false,' 'Spritual dimensions of non-violence,' 'The political scope on non-violence,' and 'The purity of non-violence.'

Contents

I Introduction: Gandhi and the one-eyed giant by Thomas Merton
II Selections from Gandhi's Non-Violence in Peace and War
Section One Principles of non-violence
Section Two Non-Violence: True and false
Section Three The spiritual dimensions of non-violence
Section Four The political scope of non-violence
Section Five The purity of non-violence
Notes
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