Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
Mohandas K. Gandhi, the great and saintly Mahatma of India, once made a characteristic but nonetheless provocative statement about justice: “That action alone is just,” he wrote, “which does not harm either party to a dispute.” There have been instances in Western jurisprudence in which that Gandhian—essentially Eastern - understanding of justice sometimes surfaces. Several decades ago, Martin Luther King Jr., in a groundswell of Gandhian activism, raised that Gandhian understanding of justice to a position of near dominance in Western thought. It may be no coincidence that both King and Gandhi suffered the same fate for their troubles. Conventional understandings of justice are not easily undone.
Recommended Citation
Raymond B. Marcin, Gandhi and Justice, 7 LOGOS: J. Cath. Soc. Thought & Culture 17 (Summer 2004).