NDLI: The Self and the Other: Liberalism and Gandhi

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Author	Puri, Bindu
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	This paper makes an attempt to philosophically re-construct what I have termed as a fundamental paradox at the heart of deontological liberalism. It is argued that liberalism attempts to create the possibilities of rational consensus and of bringing people together socially and politically by developing methodologies which overcome the divisive nature of essentially parochial substantive conceptions of the good. Such methodologies relying on the supposed universally valid dictates of reason and notions of procedural rationality proceed by disengaging men from the divisive particularities of their plural value contexts. That disengagement is sought to be achieved by conceptualizing the individual as self sufficient in her moral and epistemic being thereby conceptually isolating individual man from the other. The liberal effort to create rational consensus which can bring people together then gets off the ground by isolating the individual from the other. This I have termed as the paradox of the self and the other or alternatively the paradox of social atomism and universalism. As a possible philosophical alternative this paper makes an attempt to re-construct Gandhi’s conceptualization of the relationship between swaraj as self rule and Satyagraha as non-violent resistance. This Gandhian connection, it is argued, has the potential to transform the moral psychology of our response to the other, thereby posing a challenge to the modern, predominantly liberal, conceptualization of such a response.
Starting Page	673
Ending Page	698
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00483893
Journal	Philosophia
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15749274
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-07-20
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Liberalism Pluralism Democracy Satyagraha Swaraj Ahimsa Satya Rights Social atomism Moral autonomy Situated autonomy Epistemology Philosophy Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Science Ethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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