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Nonviolence and Gandhi's truth: A Method for Moral and Political Arbitration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2006

Farah Godrej
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Abstract

Can we gain any fresh insight into the problem of mediating among competing truth claims in political life? This essay will demonstrate that the political theory of Mahatma Gandhi provides us with a novel way to understand and arbitrate the conflict among moral projects. Gandhi offers us a vision of political action that insists on the viability of the search for truth and the implicit possibility of adjudicating among competing claims to truth. His vision also presents a more complex and realistic understanding, than do some other contemporary pluralists, of political philosophy and of political life itself.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , May 2006 , pp. 287 - 317
Copyright
2006 University of Notre Dame

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