Mahatma Gandhi and Henry Thoreau were intelligent and spiritual philosophers who have provoked great change to contemporary society. However, both men’s beliefs differed in some ways. Both had similar beliefs of how citizens should live. Gandhi explicitly referred to Socrates’ “Apology”, Jesus’ triumph over retaliation, and particularly to Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” (1849) and Tolstoy’s “The Kingdom of God is Within You” (1893). Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi (lydbog, zipmp3, engelsk) - Forfatter: Mahatma Gandhi - Forlag: SAGA. Mahatma Gandhi unit western influences: ruskin, thoreau, tolstoy and quakers structure introduction aims and objectives influence of john ruskin influence. Gandhi and Thoreau were both spiritual philosophers. Gandhi searched for an equivalent for “passive resistance” in the Gujarati language (December 1907) after he had launched a prize-winning essay competition on “The Ethics of Passive Resistance” in his magazine “Indian Opinion”. One of the earliest examples of Gandhi’s defiance. Gandhi referred to Thoreau’s essay first in September 1907 when he wrote about the “Duty of Disobeying Laws”. Thoreau, Gandhi put into practice a few of the ideas he presented supporting the belief that unjust laws should not be obeyed by the public instead unjust laws should be disobeyed through the nonviolent means of civil disobedience. Thoreau, Violence, Conscience When placed in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., civil disobedience is premised on nonviolent resistance. When searching active nonviolent resisters in history, Gandhi highlighted the abolitionist Henry David Thoreau, author of the 1849 essay “Resistance to Civil Government”, later: “Civil Disobedience”. In his early years he followed transcendentalism, a loose and eclectic idealist philosophy advocated by Emerson, Fuller, and Alcott. Gandhi recollected the Indian philosophy of Truth as root of all emancipation from slavery and war. Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and its relation to the human condition.

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