Acknowledgments
Series Introduction
Introduction
1. Gandhi as a Postmodern Thinker
Gandhi as Premodernist
The Modernist Gandhi
Two Forms of Postmodernism
A Postmodern Gandhi
2. Nonviolence in Jainism and Hinduism
Absolute Nonviolence in Jainism
Gandhi and Jainism
Relative Nonviolence in Hinduism
Gandhi's View of the Bhagavad-gita
3. Vedanta, Atman, and Gandhi
Bhikhu Parekh's Advaitin Gandhi
Ramashray Roy's Nondual Gandhi
Metaphors of Self and World
4. The Buddha and Pragmatic Nonviolence
Nonviolence in Buddhism
Gandhi's Misconceptions about Buddhism
Gandhi, Self-Suffering, and the Buddha
The Mahatma and the Bodhisattva
The Buddhist Self as Functional
Gandhian and Buddhist Humanism
5. Experiments with Truth
Aristotle on Practical Reason
Yi and Phronesis
Dharma and the Middle Way
The Eight-Fold Path
Experiments with Truth
6. The Aesthetics of Virtue
A Confucian Critique of Greco-Roman Ethics
Rational versus Aesthetic Order
A Confucian Aesthetics of Virtue
A Fusion of Making and Doing
Conclusions
7. Gandhi, Confucius, and Virtue Aesthetics
Confucius versus Gandhi
Instructive Similarities
A Gandhian Aesthetics of Virtue
8. Rules, Vows, and Virtues
Rules and Virtues
Virtue and Virility
Vows and Virtues
Gandhi's Vows
Gandhi's Virtues
9. The Virtue of Nonviolence
Character Consequentialism
The MeansEnds Relation
Is Nonviolence a Virtue at All?
Is Nonviolence an Enabling Virtue?
The Virtues, Pleasure, and Moral Freedom
Happiness, Joy, and Pleasure
10. The Saints of Nonviolence: Buddha, Christ, Gandhi, King
Saintly Gentleness and Tough Love
Utility, Duty, or Infused Charity?
The Charismatic Saint
Mahatma, Megalopsychia, and the Flawed Saint
Buddha, Christ, and Duress Virtue
Notes
Glossary of Foreign Terms
Selected Bibliography
Note on Supporting Center
Index
SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought