Gandhian Concept of Human Nature

A Concept of Human Dignity

Human nature theologically and philosophically viewed

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The Gandhian Ashram and its Contemporaries

This paper explores the Gandhian Ashram as a reaction to the forces of modernity in the late 19 th and early 20 th Centuries. Its deviation from the existing historiography is primarily in its exploration of the Ashram as one of many incidents of communal experiments at the time, which have an interesting geographic connection in London. I note Gandhi's readings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy, ...

Constructed wetlands: borrowing a concept from nature.

Society–nature Coevolution: Interdisciplinary Concept for Sustainability

A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber’s heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainabl...