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Gandhi's Truth: Nonviolence as Epistemological Arbiter |
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How do we arbitrate between competing conceptions of moral truth that arise from particular individual or cultural views of the human good? Here, I suggest that self-suffering through nonviolence is Gandhi?s answer to this question. Gandhi privileges the subjective call of particular individual consciences, even as he recognizes the incompleteness and relativity of their grasp of the truth. On the Gandhian view, the willingness to undergo non-violent self-suffering is itself proof of truthfulness, and thus serves as epistemological arbiter. A practitioner of nonviolence, while holding on to the truth as she sees it, will assume her own fallibility and give the opponent every chance to prove that her position is erroneous. The doctrine of nonviolence can thus mediate between competing visions of morality. |
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Keywords: Gandhi, truth, nonviolence, epistemology, political philosophy |
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| Godrej, Farah. "Gandhi's Truth: Nonviolence as Epistemological Arbiter" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65025_index.html> |
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| Godrej, F. , 2002-08-28 "Gandhi's Truth: Nonviolence as Epistemological Arbiter" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65025_index.html |
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Abstract: How do we arbitrate between competing conceptions of moral truth that arise from particular individual or cultural views of the human good? Here, I suggest that self-suffering through nonviolence is Gandhi?s answer to this question. Gandhi privileges the subjective call of particular individual consciences, even as he recognizes the incompleteness and relativity of their grasp of the truth. On the Gandhian view, the willingness to undergo non-violent self-suffering is itself proof of truthfulness, and thus serves as epistemological arbiter. A practitioner of nonviolence, while holding on to the truth as she sees it, will assume her own fallibility and give the opponent every chance to prove that her position is erroneous. The doctrine of nonviolence can thus mediate between competing visions of morality. |
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| Gandhi's Truth: Nonviolence As Epistemological Arbiter Farah Godrej Georgetown University Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Boston August 2002 In an era of globalization and hypernationalism political theory is presented with perhaps its most vigorous challenge yet. As radically different moral projects increasingly confront one another the problem of mediating between seemingly irreconcilable moral claims that arise from various particularistic perspectives continues to lie at the heart of many intractable political |
| strikes and boycotts while the leadership publicly demonstrates its commitment to epistemological humility through self scrutiny and conscious selfsuffering---offer a possible model for emulation in this regard? These and other remaining questions provide fertile ground for further forays into the relatively unchartered territory that is Gandhian political philosophy. Moreover given the recurring role that notions of ``truth'' and ``morality'' seem to play within political conflict there is an urgent need I submit for political theorists to excavate those latent |
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