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81. The Acorn: Volume > 13 > Issue: 1
T. Thomas Elliot Four Poems
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b. l. g. To the Reader
83. The Acorn: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Is Love Non-Violent?
84. The Acorn: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Alan S. Carroll Thinking the Unthinkable: Stopping the Next War Before It Starts
85. The Acorn: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Duane L. Cady Gandhi’s Experiments With Truth: Essential Writings by and About Mahatma Gandhi
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Paul R. Dekar Gandhi, Satyagraha and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Predrag Cicovacki Albert Schweitzer’s Ways Of Peacemaking
88. The Acorn: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Michael Allen Fox Gandhi and the World Environmental Crisis
89. The Acorn: Volume > 13 > Issue: 2
Elizabeth A. Linehan Knowing How to Punish Justly: A Gandhian Reflection
90. The Acorn: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Robert L. Holmes Understanding Evil From The Perspective of Nonviolence
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Robert Gould Are Pacifists Cowards?: A Consideration of this Question in Reference to Heroic Warrior Courage
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Sanjay Lal Hume and Gandhi: A Comparative Ethical Analysis
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Key aspects of Mahatma Gandhi’s ethical theory can be understood by way of the framework provided by David Hume’s ethics. While respecting contextual differences as well as those in over all outlook between a Sanatani Hindu reformer and a Western empiricist, I show that Gandhi and Hume mutually illuminate each other’s thought on significant ethical matters. These matters are: (1) The inability of reason to produce action (2) The relationship of reason to the emotions (3) The importance of the commonality of moral sentiments among humans (4) Identification (a kind of sympathy) as the proper starting place for morality. I hope to show that a greater viability in each thinker’s views can be noticed by those schooled in traditions different from what each respectively represent.David Hume’s ethics provide a framework for understanding key aspects of Mahatma Gandhi’s ethical theory. Indeed, for certain students of philosophy in the West, Gandhian ethics may gain status as a viable approach in moral philosophy when seen from a Humean standpoint. In what follows, I will examine four significant aspects of Gandhian ethics: (1) The limitations of reason to produce moral action. (2) The secondary status of reason in relation to the emotions in morality. (3) The importance of moral sentiments in the general population for devising a system of morality. (4) The place of identification (a kind of sympathy) for the origin of morality. I will show that all four are not only significant aspects of Humean ethics but that when understood from David Hume’s framework these parts of Gandhi’s philosophy should appear all the more plausible to those steeped in the analytic tradition.
93. The Acorn: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Rehabilitating Nonresistance
94. The Acorn: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Guidelines for Manuscript Submissions
95. The Acorn: Volume > 14 > Issue: 1
Rajmohan Ramanathapillai Gandhi on Negative and Positive Conversions
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Wendy C. Hamblet Beyond Guilt and Mourning: A Critique of Postmodern Ethics
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b. l. g. To the Reader
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Nalin Ranasinghe Desacralizing Violence: Socrates, Jesus and the Idea of Westem Civilization
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James P. Sterba The Rationale of U.S. War-Making Foreign Policy
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Richard W. Werner Reply to Sterba