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[https://academic.oup.com/book/8423/chapter-abstract/154187588?redirectedFrom=fulltext by Richard Sorabji 9/12 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | [https://academic.oup.com/book/8423/chapter-abstract/154187588?redirectedFrom=fulltext by Richard Sorabji 9/12 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | ||
Gandhi was converted to non-violence by Tolstoy's Christian conception of it as love for all. He valued it, whether used in resistance, or not. Supplementing Tolstoy, he selected resisters who could face suffering, prepared them through emotional detachment, and saw the suffering as opening ears. But he designed alternatives for non-resisters. | Gandhi was converted to non-violence by Tolstoy's Christian conception of it as love for all. He valued it, whether used in resistance, or not. Supplementing Tolstoy, he selected resisters who could face suffering, prepared them through emotional detachment, and saw the suffering as opening ears. But he designed alternatives for non-resisters. | ||
=====Tolstoy's writings on civil disobedience and non-violence===== | |||
[https://archive.org/details/tolstoywritingon0000tols by Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910] | |||
The beginning of the end -- Two wars -- Notes for officers -- Notes for soldiers -- On patriotism -- Carthago delenda est -- Patriotism, or peace? -- Letter on the peace conference -- Letter to a non-commissioned officer -- Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt -- A reply to criticism -- Another reply to critics -- Letter to the liberals -- Thou shalt not kill -- The emigration of the Dukhobors -- Nobel's bequest -- Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby -- Nikolai Palkin -- Church and state -- from The kingdom of God -- Postscripts to the Life and death of Drozhin -- On the negro-question | |||
