Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern experiments on Ancient Values
- UK: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- xiv, 224p.
978-0-19-964433-9
1.Emotional detachment: how to square it with love of family and all humans in the Stoics and Gandhi 2. Emotional detachment: how to square it with politics in the Stoics and Gandhi 3. Gandhi's individual freedom, and Isaiah Berlin on Zeno's-sour grapes 4. Nonviolence as universal love: origins and Gandhi's supplements to Tolstoy- dilemmas, successes and failures 5. From universal love to human rights? 6. Persona and svadharma: is duty universalizable or unique to the individual? 7. Hesitations about general rules in morality 8. Moral conscience 9.Restrictions on private property in Gandhi, Christianity, Plato, and the Stoics 10. Isaiah Berlin's Stoic revolution: depoliticization