Non-violence and the other A composite theory of multiplism, heterology and heteronomy drawn from jainism and gandhi

C. Ram-Prasad

DOI:10.1080/0969725032000154359

Corpus ID: 143842799

Non-violence and the other A composite theory of multiplism, heterology and heteronomy drawn from jainism and gandhi

@article{RamPrasad2003NonviolenceAT,
  title={Non-violence and the other A composite theory of multiplism, heterology and heteronomy drawn from jainism and gandhi},
  author={C. Ram-Prasad},
  journal={Angelaki},
  year={2003},
  volume={8},
  pages={22 - 3}
}

C. Ram-Prasad

Published 2003

Sociology

Angelaki

This paper 1 works through a largely intuitive notion of Otherness, an abstract understanding of violence and the moral response of non-violence drawn from the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi, a schematic presentation of approaches to Otherness, and an outline of a fully non-violent mode of engagement with Otherness drawn from a reading of the philosophy of the Indian religion of Jainism. I call this mode of engagement the search for “affinity.” It comes out of a philosophical view that I term… CONTINUE READING

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