Moral and Political Thought of Gandhi by Vinay Lal #4 of 19

Moral and Political Thought of Gandhi [Lec 04] (Lecture of 7 April 2016, UCLA). The main subjects: Essential Elements of a Gandhian Grammar of Nonviolence and of Dissent; the meanings of nonviolence, and nonviolence as a way of being in the world; Gandh's arguments--epistemological, moral, ontological, and pragmatic--against violence. Other subjects: the importance of taking vows, of giving up something; meat-eating and association with masculinity; vows and relation to promise and trust; Gandhi's interpretation of the vow he gave to his mother to give up eating meat; setting an example to others; anecdote of giving up sugar; Mahadevan's interpretation of Gandhi's approach as heuristic not holistic; relationship of vegetarianism to nonviolence; non-possession (aparigraha); Jaina doctrine of anekantavada; killing by kindness: Foucault.

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