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dc.contributor.advisorVorobej, Marken_US
dc.contributor.authorRamanathapillai, Rajmohanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:40:01Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:40:01Z-
dc.date.created2010-07-28en_US
dc.date.issued1997-09en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/2915en_US
dc.identifier.other3887en_US
dc.identifier.other1414040en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/7652-
dc.description.abstract<p>My thesis challenges the conception that Gandhi's theory and practice of nonviolence is, and must be, rooted in a particular religious perspective. I undertake to reconstruct a consistent theory of nonviolence, which starts with Gandhi's theory, but is not centred in, or expressed through, Hindu thought. My approach is based on secular moral arguments for nonviolence, and ecological ideas concerning the interconnectedness and interdependence of nature. I develop a set of principles using both Gandhi and Western environmentalists, such as Aldo Leopold and Arne Naess. In my view, what is lacking in Gandhi's theory is an environmental ethical outlook, and what is lacking in Leopold's and Naess' environmental ethics is an overall theory of nonviolence. By identifying and connecting the mutually reinforcing ethical and philosophical concepts of these thinkers, my theory integrates two significant bodies of work in order to address the morality of the institution of war and its effects on ecosystems. I develop ten principles of nonviolence and ecology which support the argument that in order to protect nature from damage it is important to resolve human conflict through nonviolence.</p>en_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleNonviolence, ecology and war: Extending Gandhian theoryen_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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