Gandhi and Tagore on the Idea of the Surplus, Creativity and Freedom: In Conversation with Richard Sorabji

This paper is in conversation with Richard Sorabji’s reading of the Gandhi Tagore debate. On Sorabji’s account freedom was an important issue in that debate as Gandhi was unable to appreciate Tagore’s emphasis on individual freedom as creativity. While I agree that freedom was an important issue, I...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sophia
1. VerfasserIn: Puri, Bindu (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Sorabji, Richard 1934- (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Netherlands [2016]
In: Sophia
IxTheo Notationen:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BK Hinduismus, Jainismus, Sikhismus
NBE Anthropologie
NCA Ethik
TK Neueste Zeit
weitere Schlagwörter:B Obedience
B Solidarity
B Swabhava
B Freedom
B Surplus
B Creativity
B Satyagraha
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Zusammenfassung:This paper is in conversation with Richard Sorabji’s reading of the Gandhi Tagore debate. On Sorabji’s account freedom was an important issue in that debate as Gandhi was unable to appreciate Tagore’s emphasis on individual freedom as creativity. While I agree that freedom was an important issue, I argue that Gandhi understood and employed the resources made available by individual creativity. The differences arose because Gandhi thought of freedom as creativity primarily in moral rather than aesthetic terms.
ISSN:1873-930X
Bezug:Kritik von "Tagore in Debate with Gandhi (2016)"
Enthält:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11841-016-0531-3