Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhiis said to havequippedthat such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn makes clear in her new book, Western civilisation has always been a bad idea, or at a...
Gandhi was firmly convinced that any man of power might turn into a tyrant or despot. Therefore, no one can be entrusted with such dangerous gift as power. However, the idea of society implies some points of contacts, some principles that every member of the given society adheres to. Thus...
Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhiis said to havequippedthat such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn makes clear in her new book, Western civilisation has always been a bad idea, or at a...
Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhiis said to havequippedthat such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn makes clear in her new book, Western civilisation has always been a bad idea, or at a...