%0 Journal Article
%T Gandhi, Civilization, Non-Violence and Obama
%A Tamer S£¿yler
%J Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
%D 2010
%I Guild of Independent Scholars
%X How should we understand Gandhi¡¯s commitment to nonviolence?After discussing and refuting the idea that Gandhi¡¯s conceptionof non-violence can be treated merely as a method to stand up toaggression, its embedment in a concept of true civilization is examined. It is argued that the important nuances between the definitions of civilization in the Gujarati and the English versions of Gandhi¡¯s seminal work Hind Swaraj (1909) reveal Gandhi¡¯s conception of civilization.
%K Non-violence
%K Gandhi
%K Civilization
%K Hind Swaraj
%U http://www.japss.org/upload/22._Tamer__opinion_paper_.pdf