Mahatma’s Philosophy on Indian Caste, Religion and Education

$49.50

$55.00

In stock

Free & Quick Delivery Worldwide

Gandhi’s conceptualization of political life and redefinitions of such central concepts as liberty (Swaraj), equality (Samata), citizenship (Nagarikata), rights (Adhikar), obligation (Dharma) and tolerance (Sahisnuta) also contain important insights and deserve close study. Like many Hindu philosophers Gandhi took little interest in the concept of human nature, largely because he took a radically individualistic view of man. Each individual was unique, followed his own path of moral and spiritual evolution and had a distinct swabhava, that is, a distinct and firm. But relatively open and within limits malleable constitution or nature. It was true that all men shared certain gunas or qualities in common. However these were too general and indeterminate to account for the unique constitution of each individual. The qualities were also largely passive, capable of neither mechanical nor teleological casualty and unable to explain human conduct. Since the concept of human nature had no explanatory power, it had neither theoretical nor practical significance for Gandhi.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Subramanian

R. Subramanian holds a postgraduate degree in Commerce, Public Administration, in Business Administration and an M.Phil in Commerce. He has a decade of industrial experience, and a decade and half of teaching experience in leading business schools. He specializes in Accounting, Finance Investment Banking, Financial Services and Tax Management. He has conducted programmes for management executives in Finance for nonfinance executives and Emerging profession - The Forensic Accountants. He has presented papers in national and international conferences, in the topics of FDI, in retailing, software and competitive edge. He has deep root in research over a decade and half and his doctoral programme is in Hedge Accounting.