RECONCILING GANDHI’S PERPETRATOR AND VICTIMHOOD PERSPECTIVES ON VIOLENCE: Knowledge, Intersectionality, and Transcendence
In this article, I offer not only an alternative but also a superior account of how we might reconcile Gandhi’s perpetrator and victimhood perspectives on violence (himsa). Appealing to both critical social studies and philosophy, I emphasize both the intersections of these two perspectives and thei...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2019, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 385-404 |
| Further subjects: | B
himsa
B Victims B Violence B Transcendence B Nonviolence B Intersectionality B Ahimsa B Knowledge B Truth B Perpetrators |
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| Summary: | In this article, I offer not only an alternative but also a superior account of how we might reconcile Gandhi’s perpetrator and victimhood perspectives on violence (himsa). Appealing to both critical social studies and philosophy, I emphasize both the intersections of these two perspectives and their intersection with his metaphysics. I reject the standard approaches to reconciling Gandhi’s commitment to nonviolence with his remarks on the occasional necessity and unavoidability of violence. Instead, I focus on how truth-seekers use their political freedom to ‘pass over,’ or cross and join, many different social viewpoints to gain knowledge and insight concerning the minimum of violence compatible with keeping everyone a path to ahimsa (nonviolence), truth and transcendence. Further, I contend my account of the intersections of nonviolence, violence, truth, and transcendence helps clarify a Gandhian contribution to UNESCO’s vision of knowledge societies through highlighting the kinds of knowledge required for such a path. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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