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    Faith and Reason: an Alternative Gandhian Understanding.Bindu Puri - 2020 - Journal of Dharma Studies 2 (2):199-219.
    Liberal theory and practice rests upon, and constantly re-affirms, a division between the secular/rational and the religious/faithful aspects of individual life. This paper will explore the philosophical implications of an alternative Gandhian understanding of the role of faith and reason in individual life. The paper will argue that M K Gandhi thought of moral life differently from both the religious traditionalist and the liberal. The distinctiveness of Gandhi’s vision came from the manner in which he could reconcile two very different (...)
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    The Self and the Other: Liberalism and Gandhi.Bindu Puri - 2011 - Philosophia 39 (4):673-698.
    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 (...)
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    Satya and Ahimsa: Learning Non-violence from the Gita.Bindu Puri - 2023 - In Mrinal Miri & Bindu Puri (eds.), Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics. Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 5375-49400.
    This essay will examine Gandhian ahimsa in its inseparability from truth. In this context, it will take issue with those who have argued that Gandhian ahimsa was either (entirely or in part) drawn from Tolstoy or (entirely or in part) from the anekantavada of the Jains; arguing that while Gandhi was influenced by both these sources, his ahimsa was drawn (in his own admission) from an altogether different source, i.e. from the metaphysics and ethics of the Bhagavad Gita. Even if (...)
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    Gandhi’s ‘True’ Politics and the Integrity of the Good Life: Satya, Swaraj, Tapasya, and Satyagraha.Bindu Puri - 2023 - In Mrinal Miri & Bindu Puri (eds.), Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics. Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 2147483647-2147483647.
    This essay will suggest that Gandhi’s true/real politics can be best understood in terms of the integrity of his ideas. This integrity refers to the fact that Gandhi was a man of integrity but more importantly to the fact that there was an integrity between his ideas and practice and between his ideas themselves. The continuities that we read in Gandhi—between politics and religion, politics religion and morality, the human being and nature and the past and present—can best be unpacked (...)
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    For Love of Country: Gandhi and Tagore.Bindu Puri - 2023 - In Mrinal Miri & Bindu Puri (eds.), Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics. Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 63-108.
    As is fairly well-known several issues raised by Tagore became a subject of some debate between Gandhi and him during the years between 1915 and 1941 (Puri, 2015). These issues could be broadly categorized into two, those concerning an uncritical adoption of the western modular nation as the end/goal by those engaged in the movement for India’s freedom and those concerning satyagraha (in the form of non-cooperation, boycott, fasting, etc.) as the unquestioned “moral” (Bhattacharya, 2008: 49) means to that end. (...)
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    Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics.Mrinal Miri & Bindu Puri (eds.) - 2023 - Springer Nature Singapore.
    This book examines the centrality of ideas such as satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence), humility, and respect for understanding moral life in the complex milieu of human existence. It provides a comprehensive view of how Gandhian ideas have both a temporal and spatial universality significantly different from Western modern philosophy's universality claims. The chapters represent different styles of philosophy but with a common purpose, offering insights into how the global debates on religion, morality, and politics are assessed from Gandhi's point of (...)
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    Absolute Equality and Absolute Difference: Gandhi on the Plurality of Religions.Bindu Puri - 2020 - Philosophia 48 (2):727-742.
    This paper will consider the ideas of absolute equality and absolute difference that are part of Gandhi’s vision on the plurality of religions. It will fall into three sections. The first section is entitled “Thinking samadarshana through samabhava-Gandhi on “equimindedness” and religious ‘others’”. It will seek to bring out the central ideas in Gandhi’s thoughts on the plurality of religions. In this context the paper will briefly examine the difference between Gandhi’s arguments for absolute equality and the liberal position on (...)
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    Freedom and the Dynamics of the Self and the 'Other'; Re-constructing the Debate Between Tagore and Gandhi.Bindu Puri - 2013 - Sophia 52 (2):335-357.
    Tagore and Gandhi shared a relationship across 26 years. They argued about many things including the means for the attainment of swaraj/freedom. In terms of this central concern with the nature of freedom they came fairly close to an issue that has perhaps dominated the (European) Enlightenment. For the Enlightenment has sought to clarify what is meant by individual freedom and attempted to secure such freedom to the individual. This article argues that the Tagore-Gandhi debate can perhaps be reconstructed around (...)
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    Finding Reasons for being Reasonable: Interrogating Rawls.Bindu Puri - 2015 - Sophia 54 (2):117-141.
    This essay discusses Rawls distinction between the reasonable and the rational in the context of the liberal effort to establish the priority of the right over the good. It argues that inarticulacy about the good makes it difficult for Rawls to find arguments in support of a minimal conception of the reasonable overlapping consensus. The essay examines Rawls’ arguments in support of the distinction between the rational and the reasonable. The paper suggests that in terms of these arguments, the term (...)
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    Gandhi and Tagore on the Idea of the Surplus, Creativity and Freedom: In Conversation with Richard Sorabji.Bindu Puri - 2016 - Sophia 55 (4):563-572.
    This paper is in conversation with Richard Sorabji’s reading of the Gandhi Tagore debate. On Sorabji’s account freedom was an important issue in that debate as Gandhi was unable to appreciate Tagore’s emphasis on individual freedom as creativity. While I agree that freedom was an important issue, I argue that Gandhi understood and employed the resources made available by individual creativity. The differences arose because Gandhi thought of freedom as creativity primarily in moral rather than aesthetic terms.
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  11. Hinduism - A Legacy in Dispute - Savarkar and Gandhi.Bindu Puri - 2003 - Indian Philosophical Quarterly 30 (2):271.
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    Reason, Morality, and Beauty: Essays on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant.Bindu Puri & Heiko Sievers (eds.) - 2006 - New Delhi: Oxford University Press India.
    This collection of essays by eminent scholars on the reconstruction and critique of Kant's transcendental philosophy in the Indian context specifically discusses moral philosophy, philosophical psychology, religion, and aesthetics.
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    Terror, peace, and universalism: essays on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.Bindu Puri, Heiko Sievers & S. C. Daniel (eds.) - 2007 - New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
    This collection of essays by eminent scholars on the reconstruction and critique of Kant's transcendental philosophy in the Indian context specifically discusses his ideas on perpetual peace, universal history, and critical philosophy.
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    The Philosophy Behind Gandhi’s Practise: A review discussion of Richard Sorabji, Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 978-0199644339, hb, 240pp.; and Ramachandra Guha, Gandhi Before India, New Delhi, Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 2013, ISBN: 9780670083879, hb, x+673 pp.Bindu Puri - 2015 - Sophia 54 (3):385-390.
    This review discussion examines two recent works on Gandhi, Richard Sorabji’s Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values, and Ram Guha’s Gandhi Before India. The review makes the point that we can see Gandhi’s unusual philosophical method at work if the two books are read together. Sorabji has argued that it is essential to understand Gandhi’s philosophy before we can assess the consistency between what he thought, believed and did. Guha has recorded events in Gandhi’s early years that (...)
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    13. Transforming Sacred Space into Shared Place: Reinterpreting Gandhi on Temple Entry.Bindu Puri - 2019 - In Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 228-250.
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    The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth.Bindu Puri - 2015 - New Delhi: Imprint: Springer.
    This volume discusses the development of the dialogue between Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) during 1915 and 1941, about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi's mantra connecting "swaraj" and "charkha". The author, Bindu Puri, argues that the debate was about more fundamental issues, such as the nature of truth and swaraj/freedom and the possibilities of untruth that Tagore saw in (...)
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    Zarathustra, Phronesis, and an Alternative Understanding of Human Rights.Bindu Puri - 2005 - New Nietzsche Studies 6 (3-4):23-34.