Within the tangled worlds of both politics and religion Mahatma Gandhi moved freely; challenging sacrosanct dogmas about the limits of the possible, he explored daringly simple alternatives. Owing to his early experience of the meretricious glamor of modern civilization, he could at once declare that...
The quote also morphs and changes over the years with some versions saying “modern civilization” rather than “western civilization.” And perhaps most damning, Ralph Keyes, author of the 2006 book The Quote Verifier, says that no reliable biographies written about Gandhi include this zinger. 7...
A Discourse on Modern Civilization: The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki and Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi has also addressed these issues in his writings and speeches. Both of them inherit the ideas of Buddha to make their positions. They have... RP Dwivedi 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 加载更多来源...
Ultimately, Gandhi's aim was to circumvent the pull toward a modern civilization that he saw as diseased, corrupt, and spiritually irredeemable, though the conditions of this very civilization forged the tools of his own mission and made it intelligible. This "civilization" has over the course ...
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. MAHATMA GANDHI,Hind Swaraj For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. ...
Furthermore, he was so hostile to modern civilization that he was unable to appreciate its complex dialectic or offer a meaningful narrative. Nevertheless, Gandhi's life and thought had an enormous impact on the Indian nation, and he continues to be widely revered--known before and after his ...
More specifically, in this chapter I reflect on the nature of heroism in the context of nationalism and decolonization , for although the hero is certainly not a figure unique to the imperial age-and is, in fact, more at home in the archaic light of civilization than in the dark age of...
The first section of the paper provides Gandhi's criticism of modern civilization, that of economics and that of Marxist socialism and communism. The second section analyzes his ideas for a "post-modern" construction of India, where his views on Swadeshi (self-reliance), his theory of ...
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes On Education Go to table of contents
Regardless of where he got his sense of punctuality from, there is no denying the interesting fact that Gandhi was actually ten minutes late to a prayer meeting the day of his assassination. Perhaps, if he had been on time, he might still be alive today. What is known is that Gandhi ex...