Review article
Peace and individual in the thought of H. D. Thoreau and M. Mahatma Gandhi
Adnan Tatar
; Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Research into the duties of the individual in the work of the American thinker,
activist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, and the leader of non-violent resistance
to British colonial administration in India Mahatma Gandhi, offers theoretical insights
into one of the most important phenomena of social science and the study of human
kind. The opinions and active role of Thoreau and Gandhi represent a pragmatic attitude to the personification of human dignity, as a value that surpasses all other ideas,
ideals and principles. This paper examines the actions and thinking of the individual
as citizen while striving to highlight all the important aspects of ‘civil disobedience’,
not as a license for anarchy but as the idea of civil duty. In this way, the two subjects of
the article place the individual before the ideological concept of nation, race, class and
party as the supreme value in itself. It is on this fundamental value that Thoreau and
Gandhi build their own concept of peace.
Keywords
H. D. Thoreau; Mahatma Gandhi; individual; duty; freedom; peace.
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265681
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Publication date:
15.12.2015.
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