The Aryan Path March 1939

PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE Professor G. R. Malkani is the Head of the Indian Institute of Philosophy at Amalner and is the Managing Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly the official organ of the Indian Philosophical Congress.—Ens.] Philosophy may be defined as the self-conscious attempt to solve certain ultimate questions relating to the nature of reality and our place in it. [...] G. R. MALICANI A TRIAD FROM THE UNITED STATES [Below we print three articles on Gandhiji's book Hind Swaraj which exaine the value and the applicability of its doctrines to the present-day conditions in the United States of America_ All of them accept the religious message of the book while presenting the difficulties of their application to socio-economic problems.—Ens.] THE UNIVERSAL AND THE [...] Gandhi's statement that if the patient is not saved the doctor may have been merciful to him and the world will not come to grief again expresses the difference between the passivity and fatalism of the East and the energy egoistic if you will of the West. [...] or by the moral cleanlness of the people's customs and the sincerity and the kindliness of their hearts ? Gandhiji's central idea seems to be that if every individual realises the worth of spiritual freedom and acts accordingly the liberty of the nation is assured. [...] From this point we can fully apprciate the view that it is not the noviolence of the meek and the imbecile but of the strong and the powerful that can be effective in overcoming the user of violence.