RE321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Unto This Last, Swaraj, Satyagraha
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Re321 lesson 6: gandhi"s social-economic thought: sarvodaya and the constructive program. In south africa, this discrimination appeared in laws such as the asiatic law. In the midst of this frustration came the pull . Definition: the word is a neologism in hindi that means the welfare of all , essentially a principle of social and economic equality and humility, as gandhi puts it, sarvodaya is a principle: It manifests itself in three overarching qualities: that the good of the individual is contained in the good of all : I. e: there is no socially superior or inferior work, every kind of work is necessary for our well-being, there is no economically superior or inferior work, every kind of work contributes to society. Indeed, gandhi seems to have felt that every kind of work is worthy of essentially the same wages: that the life of labour is the life worth living :
