POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Constitutionalism, Ilish, Satyagraha
10 Dec 2017
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Lecture 24: gandhi: historical context & biography, context. This was a burden because indians needed salt, therefore. Gandhi started the march (in order to break the law): he went to the sea and gathered salt from the sea. This political action started a revolt, which ended with gandhi going to jail alongside thousands of other people who marched with him: the problem with colonialism: it requires participation from the colonized. Satyagraha: truth-force : satya: truth, commitment to truth-telling, not only through speech but also through actions. In other words, it is based on sincerity and the commitment to social relationship with other creatures (not just human beings: satyagraha, nonviolent social change, persuasion through reason. Involves speaking the truth, but this is insufficient because it is rare (considering the nature of men: persuasion through speech therefore has to be supplemented, persuasion through self-suffering:
