Confucius, Gandhi and the aesthetics of virtue

Asian Philosophy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-54

  Gier, Nicholas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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EID: 33748579139     PISSN: 09552367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09552360120048843     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. GANDHI, M. K. (1924) Young India, 6, 13 November, p. 377.
2. CARREL, ALEX (1935) Man the Unknown (New York, Harper & Brothers), pp. 130-131.
3. See GIER, NICHOLAS F. (1995) Ahimsa, the self and postmodernism, International Philosophical Quarterly, 35(1), pp. 71-86;
4. GIER, NICHOLAS F. (1996) Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism (in Japanese), Journal of Oriental Studies, 35(2), pp. 84-105;
5. GIER, NICHOLAS F. (1996) Gandhi: premodern, modern, or postmodern? Gandhi Marg, 17(3), pp. 261-281;
6. and GIER, NICHOLAS F. (2000) Gandhi, the Buddha, and Atman: a response to Roy, Gandhi Marg, 21(4), pp. 447-459.
7. See AMES, ROGER T. & ROSEMONT, HENRY (1998) The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (New York, Ballantine Books). Unless otherwise noted the Analects will be cited from this translation.
8. See AMES, ROGER T. & ROSEMONT, HENRY, The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation, ibid., p. 250, note 192.
9. GANDHI, M. K. (1959) The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 12 (New Delhi, Government of India Publications), p. 375.
10. M. K. GANDHI, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Ibid., p. 165.
11. When he writes about his philosophy of education, he calls for a harmony of intellect, heart, and body. See GANDHI, M. K. (1937) Harijan, 5, 8 May, p. 104.
12. The Lau translation will be cited in the text unless otherwise indicated. LAU, D. C. (1970) Mencius (Harmondsworth, Penguin).
13. See GANDHI, M. K. (1927) Young India, 9, 20 October, p. 355.
14. GANDHI, Harijan, op. cit., note 6, Vol. 19, p. 175.
15. GANDHI, M. K. (1934) Harijan, 2, 28 September, p. 258.
16. Quoted in IVANHOE, P. J. (2000) Confucian Moral Self Cultivation (Indianopolis, IN, Hackett), p. xiii.
17. 'Because of [the king's] willingness to put himself in danger on behalf of another, his de is magnified' (quoted in IVANHOE P. J., Confucian Moral Self Cultivation, ibid., p. xv).
18. AMES & ROSEMONT, Confucian Moral Self Cultivation, op. cit., note 4, Analects 20. 1.
19. GANDHI, M. K. (1926) Young India, 8, 2 December, p. 419.
20. GANDHI, M. K. (1936) Harijan, 28 March, p. 49.
21. See GIER, NICHOLAS F. (2001) The dancing Ru: a Confucian aesthetics of virtue, Philosophy East and West, 51 (2), for more on the comparison of Aristotelian phronēsis and Confucian yi.
22. WEIMING, TU (1989) Centrality and Commonality (Albany, NY, SUNY Press), p. 27.
23. ROY, RAMESHRAY (1996) Understanding Gandhi (New Delhi, Ajanta), p. 89.
24. Majjhima-nikaya I. 190-1, quoted in KALUPAHANA, DAVID J. (1976) Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis (Honolulu, HI, University of Hawaii Press), p. 64.
25. KALUPAHANA, Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis, op. cit., note 23, p. 63.
26. BEDEKAR, D. K. (1975) Towards Understanding Gandhi, R. GAWANDE (Ed.) (Bombay, Popular Prakashan), pp. 117, 119.
27. GANDHI, M. K. (1930) Young India, 12, 11 September, p. 1.
28. AMES & ROSEMONT, Young India, op. cit., note 4, pp. 51-52.
29. Cited in GANDHI, MADAN (1969) M. Gandhi, A Gandhian Aesthetics (Chandigarh, Vikas Bharati), p. 266.
30. GANDHI, M. K. (1938) Harijan, 6, 19 February, p. 10.
31. KIRTI SINGH, M. (1994) [The] Philosophical Import of Gandhism (New Delhi, South Asian Publishers), p. 136, note 3.
32. Cited in M. K. SINGH, [The] Philosophical Import of Gandhism, ibid., p. 135.
33. WATSON, BURTON (Trans.) (1968) The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu (New York, Columbia University Press), p. 72.
34. GANDHI, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. op. cit., note 1.
35. NEHRU, JAWAHARLAL (1949) Mahatma Gandhi (Calcutta, Sigma Press), p. 159.
36. PAYNE, ROBERT (1969) The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi (New York, Dutton), p. 14.