Gandhi’s Wisdom: Insights from the Founding Father of Modern Psychology in the East

Preface
References
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Part I Gandhi and the Psychology of Wisdom
1 Gandhi’s Truth as a Precursor of Authentic Wisdom
	Gandhi’s Wisdom: Lessons from the Founding Father of Modern Psychology in the East
	The Psychology of Human Wisdom
	Issues with Research on the Psychology of Wisdom
	References
2 Milgram’s Lost Gandhi: Whither Gandhi’s Wisdom of Nonviolence in the Psychology of Wisdom
	Gandhi and William James’ Moral Equivalent of War
	Nonviolence as Wisdom
	Gandhi’s Understanding of Human Cognition
	Gandhi’s Understanding of Human Motivation
	Nonviolence as a Science and Precursor of Wisdom
	References
Part II Gandhi’s Wisdom in the Interdisciplinary Perspective
3 On Seeking Wisdom in Gandhi’s Silence
	Gandhi’s Silence
	The Neuropsychology of Silence
	The Psychology of Silence
	Our Appraisal of Silence in Everyday Life
	References
4 Nonviolent Self-Efficacy for Social Transformation and Health: Theoretical and Empirical Bases
	Self-Efficacy Approaches: Major Contours
	Skills for Gandhian Nonviolence: Three Clusters
		Means
	Collective Efficacy
	Role of Spirituality
	Pilot Survey
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
5 Significance of Gandhi’s Fasts: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
	Introduction
	The Cultural Context of Gandhi’s Fasts
	Fasting for the Sins of Others
	Fasting as a Weapon of Nonviolence
	The Power of Fasting
	Distinction Between a Fast and a Hunger Strike
	Fasting as a Science
	Fasting: Public or Private?
	Fasting and Love
	Fast Unto Death as the Ultimate Weapon
	Other Considerations
	Conclusion
	References
6 Self- and Other-Purification as Gandhi’s Way of Un-othering
	Othering and Its Nature
	Muslims as the Other
	Shudras as the Other
	Un-othering and Its Nature
	The Gandhian Method of Un-othering
	Self-Purification as a Way of Un-othering
	Other-Purification as a Way of Un-othering
	In Sum
	References
7 Gandhi’s Theory of Trusteeship and Its Influence on Employee Ownership in the Twenty-First Century
	Introduction
	Part 1—The Lack of Progress Towards a Trusteeship Model for All Businesses
	Part 2—Workers’ Trusteeship Responsibilities Achieved Through EO
	Part 3—The Challenge of Making the Twenty-First Century Corporation Responsible to Society
	Part 4—EO with Added Gandhian Purpose
	Conclusions
	References
8 Calling Orientation as Sustainability in Gandhi’s Wisdom
	The Concept of Calling Orientation
	Calling Orientation and Organizational Sustainability
	Organizational Sustainability in the Gandhian Perspective
	Good Citizenry as an Outcome of Nonviolence
	Replication of Community Feeling in an Organizational Context
	Application of Gandhi’s Wisdom in Organizational Behavior
	References
9 The Wisdom of Gandhi: Achieving a Sustainable Economy
	Introduction
	Main Pillars of Gandhi’s Economic Thoughts: Truth (Satya) and Nonviolence (Ahimsa)
	Property Rights and Aparigriha (Non-possession) and Sarvodaya (Welfare of All)
	Capital and Labor
	Village Production and Decentralization of Economy
	Relevance of Gandhian Economics Today
	Applied Cases of Gandhian Economic Thought
	Conclusion
	References
10 Turing Testing and Gandhi’s Wisdom in the Era of Cognitive Computing
	Beyond Darwin: Exaptation and Gandhi
	Cognizing Gandhi’s Wisdom in Psychology of Technology
	On the Applications of Converging Technologies and Cognitive Computing
	Perspectives in Living with Humanoid Gandhi
	Research Trajectory for Studying Gandhi’s Wisdom
	References
11 Situated Moral Practice: Resisting Authority in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Experiment
	Situated Moral Practice in Milgram’s Lab
	Moral Resistance and Power
	Data and Methods
	The Sequential Context of Resistance: Directive-Response Sequences
	Resistance to Continuation
	Competing Sequential Relevancies
	Discussion
	References
12 The Primacy of Intention and the Duty to Truth: A Gandhi-Inspired Argument for Retranslating Hiṃsā and Ahiṃsā
	Reading Gandhi: My Context
	Twenty-First Century Challenges for Advocates of Nonviolence
	Hiṃsā and “Violence”
	Ahiṃsā and “Nonviolence”
	Words as Windows into Moral Accountability
	Alternative Translations
	Where Does This Leave Us?
	Postscript: Training in Beneficence
	References
Part III On Living as Gandhi
13 My Journey to Gandhi
	The First Noble Sound
	The Journey Begins
	The Thirst for Meaning
	Our Challenge
	Courage Against Violence
	References
14 From Past to Present: Gandhi’s Relevance for Today
	A Soldier for Peace
	Mentors and Models
	A Revolution in the Revolution
	More Power Than We Know
	Dr. King: The American Gandhi
	How the Gandhian Method Works
	Empirical Confirmation
	Climate Action, Gandhian Ways
	References
15 Gandhi’s Contribution to a War Free World: My Inspiration
	My Route to Gandhi
	Gandhi’s Adoption of Nonviolence
	Gandhi, Ahimsa and War
	Crisis
	A Greater Challenge
	The Modus Operandi of Satyagraha
	A War-Free World
	References
Part IV The Interminable Wisdom of Gandhi
16 Gandhi’s Wisdom in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond
	Why Do We Need Gandhi More Than Ever Before in Our Search for Wisdom?
	On Moving Away from the Study of Negative Forms of Behavior: The Context of Gandhi’s Wisdom
	Faith, Wisdom, and Gandhi
	Wisdom Is Psychological and Yet Not so Psychological
	On the Wisdom of Machines
	Wisdom, Nonviolence, and Happiness: Gandhi’s Seasons of Life
	References
Author Index
Subject Index