Philosophy of Gandhi

Philosophy of Gandhi

1 Indic Religions- Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism

  1. Hinduism: Sources and Basic Doctrines
  2. Hinduism and Gandhi
  3. Jainism: Schools, Vows and Basic Doctrines
  4. Gandhi and Jainism
  5. Buddhism: Four Noble Truths and The Eight Fold Path
  6. Gandhi and Buddhism

2 Semitic Religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism

  1. Judaism: History, Theology, Philosophy
  2. Christianity: the Teachings and Basic Doctrines
  3. Gandhi and Christianity
  4. Islam: Spread of Islam, the Holy Quran
  5. Gandhi and Islam

3 Western Philosophy (Greek Tradition, Ruskin, Tolstoy, Thoreau)

  1. Greek History, Tradition and Philosophy
  2. John Ruskin
  3. Leo Tolstoy
  4. Henry David Thoreau
  5. Gandhi and Thoreau

4 Eastern Philosophy (Vedanta, Bhakti Movement โ€“ ( Kabir, Tulasidas), Vaishnavism, Anasakti Yoga)

  1. Vedanta
  2. Bhakti Movement and Vaishnavism
  3. Kabir and the Sufi Sect
  4. Tulasidas: Social Concern and Formless Rama
  5. Vaishnavism
  6. Anasaktiyoga

5 Gandhiโ€™s views on Human Nature

  1. Gandhian Approach to Understanding Human Nature
  2. Gandhiโ€™s Concept of Man
  3. Man: Brutishness to Divinity
  4. Steps for Upward Movement: Sources of Inspiration
  5. Human Perfectibility

6 Gandhiโ€™s views on Truth

  1. Meaning of Truth, Truth is God
  2. The Importance of Truth in Human Life
  3. Absolute and Relative Truth
  4. Truth and God
  5. Gandhi and the Advaita Perspective

7 Gandhiโ€™s views on Non-Violence

  1. Meaning of Non-violent Resistance
  2. The Intellectual Context
  3. The Historical Context
  4. The Means-Ends Problem
  5. The Problem of Violence in Gandhiโ€™s Own Words
  6. Satyagraha and Non-violence
  7. Critiques of Gandhiโ€™s Non-Violent Strategy of Resistance

8 Gandhiโ€™s views on Religion

  1. Gandhiโ€™s Concept and Understanding of Religion
  2. Gandhi on Islam and Christianity
  3. Gandhiโ€™s Views on Hinduism
  4. Gandhiโ€™ Interpretation of The Gita
  5. Inner Purification
  6. On God and Universal Religion

9 Gandhiโ€™s Critique of Modern Civilisation

  1. Gandhiโ€™s Idea of Civilisation
  2. Modern Civilisation and Loss of Indiaโ€™s Freedom
  3. Modern Civilisation: Bane for India
  4. Khadi as Critique of Modern Civilisation
  5. Education as Critique of Modernity
  6. Nation State and Modern Industrialisation

10 Critical Understanding of Indian Civilisation

  1. The Idea of Civilisation
  2. The Renaissance and Indian Intellectuals
  3. Tradition and Reform: Social Reformers
  4. Gandhiโ€™s Reformist Programme
  5. Critical Understanding of Indian Civilisation

11 Towards a New Civilisation

  1. Basic Foundations of New Civilisation
  2. Overcoming Tradition-Modernity Dichotomy
  3. Universal Religion: Unity in Diversity
  4. Truth is God
  5. Swaraj
  6. Sarvodaya
  7. Contemporary Relevance

12 Sarvodaya

  1. Concept of Sarvodaya
  2. Sources of the Idea of Sarvodaya
  3. Basic Components of Gandhian Sarvodaya
  4. Sarvodaya: Politico-Social Framework
  5. Sarvodaya in Practice
  6. Post-Gandhian Phase
  7. Environmental Dimension of Sarvodaya
  8. Sarvodaya as a Realistic Utopian Ideal
  9. Sarvodaya Network

13 Duties

  1. Meaning of Duty
  2. Duty and Social Service
  3. Duty of Disobedience (Satyagraha)

14 Swaraj

  1. Swaraj as Self-control
  2. Swaraj as Self-rule

15 Swadeshi

  1. Swadeshi: Self-Reliance
  2. Swadeshi: An Economic Philosophy
  3. Village Economy
  4. Swadeshi Movement And Khadi
  5. Swadeshi: A Religious Idea

16 Satyagraha

  1. Concept of Satyagraha
  2. Sources of the Idea of Satyagraha
  3. Satyagrahi
  4. Satyagraha in South Africa
  5. Satyagraha Movements in British India
  6. Satyagraha in the French and Portuguese India
  7. Satyagraha Legacy outside India
  8. Contemporary Relevance