RE321- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
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Argua(cid:271)l(cid:455) the guidi(cid:374)g ai(cid:373) of ga(cid:374)dhi"s life, the ai(cid:373) that guided all of his a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities, (cid:449)as to understand and to live in accord with a religious principle that he called truth. For gandhi, however, there was really no such thing as (cid:862)se(cid:272)ular(cid:863) life; he believed that all facets of life are religious, and we shall see that his entire thinking is grounded in religion. Perhaps the si(cid:374)gle (cid:373)ost i(cid:374)trigui(cid:374)g phase of mahat(cid:373)a ga(cid:374)dhi"s life (cid:449)as his earl(cid:455) life: the period of his youth, his training as a lawyer, and his settlement into the practice of law in south africa. To be sure, gandhi was middle aged (45 years old) in 1914, and so to (cid:272)all the period (cid:271)efore (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1005)(cid:1008) his (cid:862)earl(cid:455) life(cid:863) is so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g of a si(cid:373)plifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374). Duri(cid:374)g ga(cid:374)dhi"s earl(cid:455) life, the tu(cid:373)ultuous so(cid:272)ieties i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h he grew up pushed him towards new and groundbreaking convictions. First, (cid:449)e shall outli(cid:374)e ke(cid:455) dates a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts.
