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Mahatma Gandhi

The Prophet of Tolerance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Ramin Jahanbegloo

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Mahatma Gandhi was one of those rare human beings who was simultaneously a theoretician and practitioner of tolerance. Gandhi was possessed of an inner conviction that tolerance was not only one of the key words of his own century but of centuries still to come. It is in this sense that his ideas on non-violence and tolerance transcend the context of India itself, even though these ideas were initially conceived in relation to India's independence and future. Nevertheless, in spite of what may seem obvious, it is no mere truism to state that Gandhi would not have been Gandhi had he not been born Indian. We say this in order to underscore that Gandhi's concept of tolerance was rooted in Indian culture.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 44 , Issue 176 , December 1996 , pp. 115 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Notes

1. Quoted in: M. Semenoff, Tolstoï et Gandhi, Paris, 1958, pp. 42-3.

2. Quoted in: J. Herbert, Ce que Gandhi a vraiment dit, Marabout University, 1974, p. 73.

3. Quoted in: Gandhi (Collection Sup Philosophe), Paris, 1967, p. 24.

4. Ibid., p. 87.

5. Quoted in: J. Herbert (note 2 above), pp. 80-81.

6. Ibid., p. 51.

7. M. Gandhi, Collected Works, Vol. XXXV, Navijivan Trust, 1994, pp. 166-67.

8. Quoted in: J. Herbert (note 2 above), p. 52.

9. Quoted in: R. Balasubramanian, Tolerance in Indian Culture, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1992, p. 17.

10. Ibid., p. 18.

11. M. Gandhi (note 7 above).

12. Quoted in: J. Herbert (note 2 above), p. 114.