Question

how did Gandhi overcome the challenges he faced?

Answer 1

• The word 'mahatma' means 'great soul'. One might suppose that Gandhi's ideas would no longer have to change after he attained such a status, he'd be right about everything already; but he knew better than to think that. Yet he too was not a philosopher. He was a man of action.

• It is appropriate to consider Gandhi in our analysis of good and evil, because he is the closest we have to a worldwide model of a good person from the last several centuries. Westerners, for instance, know what Einstein said in 1945 about him: that 'generations to come' would 'scarce believe that such a man ever in flesh and blood walked on this earth'. Indeed one challenge in writing about him is to describe his moral failings (which he did have, since he was human) and his many mistakes without appearing to be just a pigmy sniping at the giant who invented beautiful political techniques and used them to take away the greatest colony from the greatest empire in history.

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Answer 2

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• The word 'mahatma' means 'great soul'. One might suppose that Gandhi's ideas would no longer have to change after he attained such a status, he'd be right about everything already; but he knew better than to think that. Yet he too was not a philosopher. He was a man of action.
• It is appropriate to consider Gandhi in our analysis of good and evil, because he is the closest we have to a worldwide model of a good person from the last several centuries. Westerners, for instance, know what Einstein said in 1945 about him: that 'generations to come' would 'scarce believe that such a man ever in flesh and blood walked on this earth'. Indeed one challenge in writing about him is to describe his moral failings (which he did have, since he was human) and his many mistakes without appearing to be just a pigmy sniping at the giant who invented beautiful political techniques and used them to take away the greatest colony from the greatest empire in history.

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