Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lecture 4 of 19, April 7, 2026
Watch the playlist: Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lectures 19 https://rutube.ru/plst/1583914 The main subjects: Essential Elements of a Gandhian Grammar of Nonviolence and of Dissent; the meanings of nonviolence, and nonviolence as a way of being in the world; Gandh's arguments--epistemological, moral, ontological, and pragmatic--against violence. Other subjects: the importance of taking vows, of giving up something; meat-eating and association with masculinity; vows and relation to promise and trust; Gandhi's interpretation of the vow he gave to his mother to give up eating meat; setting an example to others; anecdote of giving up sugar; Mahadevan's interpretation of Gandhi's approach as heuristic not holistic; relationship of vegetarianism to nonviolence; non-possession (aparigraha); Jaina doctrine of anekantavada; killing by kindness: Foucault. Vinay Lal is an Indian historian. He is a professor of history and Asian American studies at UCLA. He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India, cinema, historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems.
Watch the playlist: Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lectures 19 https://rutube.ru/plst/1583914 The main subjects: Essential Elements of a Gandhian Grammar of Nonviolence and of Dissent; the meanings of nonviolence, and nonviolence as a way of being in the world; Gandh's arguments--epistemological, moral, ontological, and pragmatic--against violence. Other subjects: the importance of taking vows, of giving up something; meat-eating and association with masculinity; vows and relation to promise and trust; Gandhi's interpretation of the vow he gave to his mother to give up eating meat; setting an example to others; anecdote of giving up sugar; Mahadevan's interpretation of Gandhi's approach as heuristic not holistic; relationship of vegetarianism to nonviolence; non-possession (aparigraha); Jaina doctrine of anekantavada; killing by kindness: Foucault. Vinay Lal is an Indian historian. He is a professor of history and Asian American studies at UCLA. He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India, cinema, historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems.