Western Values in M. K. Gandhi’s Social Philosophy

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

M. K. Gandhi; evangelic values; modernization; non-Western intellectuals

Abstract

The article deals with the Western values and ideas in M. K. Gandhi’s thought. Although he rejects technical progress and other external manifestations of modernization, his views in a great extent are consistent with the moral foundation of Modernity. First, it is expressed in the fact that he pays special attention to the problem of personal existence in social world. He took this personalistic approach from the modern Western philosophy, where it arose as a result of reconsideration of Christian tradition. Furthermore, we can find many concrete evangelic values and ideas in his teaching of Satyagraha, as well as in his social and economic views.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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