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325Stable and sustainable knowledge societies: A Gandhian perspectiveJournal of Dharma 44 (4): 445-470. 2019.This paper examines Gandhian philosophy and practice to reinterpret UNESCO's educational vision towards establishing stable and sustainable knowledge societies. The uniqueness of the Gandhian perspective is its ability to withstand the dominant political, philosophical and religious challenges with its contextually rooted, spiritually oriented, socially responsible and human person centred reinterpretations. UNESCO’s educational vision-Learning: The Treasure Within published in 1996 is a catalys…Read more
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18Does Liberal Democracy Require a Gandhian Approach to Religion? (review)The Acorn 19 (2): 101-129. 2019.In this author-meets-critics dialogue, Sanjay Lal, author of, argues that Gandhian values of nonviolence raise aspirations of liberal democracy to a higher level. Since Gandhian values of nonviolence are closely associated with religious values, liberal democracy should make public commitments to religions on a non-sectarian basis, except for unreasonable religions. Critic Jeff Shawn Jose agrees that Gandhian values can strengthen liberal democracy. However, Jose finds a contradiction in Lal’s p…Read more
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5Religion and Radical Pluralism: Engaging Rawls and GandhiLexington Books. 2023.This book engages the perspective of public reason and the position of religious believers through a mutual confrontation of Rawlsian political liberalism and Gandhian ideas. By teasing out concords and discords between Rawls and Gandhi, Jeff Shawn Jose innovatively advances the debate about the role of religion in the public sphere.
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Tilburg UniversityResearcher
Tilburg University
PhD, 2022
APA Eastern Division
Tilburg, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
John Rawls |
Political Liberalism |
Mahatma Gandhi |