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Gandhi and the Virtue of Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Joseph Kupfer
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Abstract

The film Gandhi expands our understanding of how the virtue of care can function in the public sphere by portraying Gandhi dealing with Indian independence from Britain, the subjugation of women and Untouchables, and strife between Hindus and Muslims. Gandhi illustrates in his social and political activism how the virtue of care is animated by benevolence and structured by the building blocks of the care perspective: responsibility and need, relationship and mutual dependency, context and narrative.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , Summer 2007 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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