Nonviolence and Gandhi's Truth: A Method for Moral and Political Arbitration
In: The review of politics, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 287-317
ISSN: 1748-6858
Can we gain any fresh insight into the problem of mediating among competing truth claims in political life? This essay will demonstrate that the political theory of Mahatma Gandhi provides us with a novel way to understand & arbitrate the conflict among moral projects. Gandhi offers us a vision of political action that insists on the viability of the search for truth & the implicit possibility of adjudicating among competing claims to truth. His vision also presents a more complex & realistic understanding, than do some other contemporary pluralists, of political philosophy & of political life itself. Adapted from the source document.