Between Ethics and Politics

Satyagraha: The Gandhian Way

“…For this very reason, as heirs of this art, we need to take care to educate humanity towards the consciousness of what is due to her by virtue of a superior example of human achievement. Gandhi did not expect all human beings to become Satyagrahis: ‘the [practice] of Satyagraha by the vast mass of mankind will be impossible if they had all to assimilate all of its implications’ (Pföstl, 2014, p. 67). However, he did not despair, since he knew well that ‘civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to human beings the path of duty’ (Bilgrami, 2011, p. 7).…”