Elliot d cohen biography of mahatma
Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher and the Director of Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies at Jindal Global University, India..
My Story
I began my professional career as a philosopher trained in analytic philosophy at Brown University under the tutelage of Roderick M.
Chisholm, one of the most influential analytic philosophers in contemporary history. This is incredibly rigorous philosophy, linguistic analysis with a deliberate attempt to avoid any value commitments. It can sharpen the mind; but I found myself at a loss when, after looking through my doctoral thesis, my wife very earnestly queried, “But what are you going to do with it?” I had a deep sense that there was a satisfactory answer to her question; only I just didn’t have one!
We conclude that biography is an inescapably awkward enterprise, because of the intimate and fraught politics between author and subject.
Released from the Ivory Towers, I snagged a post doc at Shands Medical Center at the University of Florida and spent an additional year working on a grant on values clarification.
One dark evening during the latter year, my beloved father suffered a massive heart attack at the young age of 60.
At the moment of his h