Gandhi’s Religious Universalism
Gandhi’s Religious Universalism
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甘地的宗教普世主义
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-349-20354-3_14
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
E. Hall
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作者：
E. Hall
如果说甘地的生平和思想对于漫不经心的人来说是一个谜，那么对于认真的学生和信徒来说，它们就是一个日益加深的谜。他的言论是公开的，被广泛分享，他的信件大量，他的文章和演讲被翻译成六种语言，他的风格开放而朴素。他从不遮遮掩掩，也很少诡秘。他比20世纪的任何思想家都更关心向任何询问他的人解释他的观点，而不管询问者的心情或问题的层次如何。作家、编辑、演说家、社会改革家、传教士、祈祷领袖、外交家、政治家、律师、饮食、健康和社会结构的实验者，他的文字记录超过90卷。尽管他可能是三代人中最引人注目的公众人物，但一个人对他的思想宝库研究得越多，他的观点就越难以捉摸。有些作家会在同情的距离之外得到更好的评价，在那里他们的作品可以作为一个连贯的整体来欣赏，而不是近距离观察，在那里发现大厦的缺陷。然而，圣雄甘地的散乱和多样化的作品误导了肤浅的读者，让他们发现了所谓的矛盾和不一致，但一个人越接近他们——一封接一封，一篇接一篇的演讲——他的基础就越坚实。
If Gandhi’s life and thought are an enigma to the casually interested, they are a deepening mystery to the serious student and devotee. His remarks were public and widely shared, his correspondence voluminous, his articles and speeches translated into half a dozen tongues, and his style open and plain. He was never secretive and seldom cryptic. More than any thinker in the twentieth century, he was concerned to explain his views to anyone who asked about them, whatever the mood of the inquirer or level of the question. Writer, editor, public speaker, social reformer, preacher, leader of prayers, diplomat, politician, lawyer, experimenter in diet, health and social structures, his recorded words fill more than ninety volumes. Despite being perhaps the most visible public figure in three generations, the more one examines the great treasury of his thought, the more elusive his views become. Some writers will fare better perceived from a sympathetic distance, where their work can be appreciated as a coherent whole, rather than looked at closely, where flaws in the edifice are revealed. Mahatma Gandhi’s unsystematic and diverse writings, however, have misled superficial readers into detecting alleged discrepancies and inconsistencies throughout, but the closer one draws to them — letter by letter, speech by speech — the more solid his foundation is seen to be.