Mahatma Gandhi: A hold upon others

1 January 1993

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Creativity Research Journal

Vol. 6 (1-2) , 29-44
https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419309534464

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) is the exemplar par excellence in our time of creativity in the moral domain. Through the invention and application of the subtle principles of satyagraha (nonviolent resistance to injustice) Gandhi led the Indian people to liberation from the British empire. Gandhi had learned much from the American, Henry David Thoreau; in his turn, he became a model for the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. For this special issue of the Creativity Research Journal we include excerpts from Howard E. Gardner's chapter on Gandhi, part of his next book, Creating Minds (Gardner, 1993). For our present excerpts we have chosen to emphasize three facets: Gandhi's early life, the principles of Satyagraha, and some of Gardner's thought on the relation between creativity and morality.—Editors

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