Week 5/Required Readings

I found the philosophy of nonviolence by Gandhi to be very interesting. I had a lot of respect for Gandhi and his nonviolent revolts. He had many good ideas concerning the multiplying numbers to bring people to the nonviolent mentality. I agree with him in the sense that you can’t have just a couple people in a community become nonviolent; the whole community needs to be nonviolent. The use of nonviolence to defend ones community from violence was a little bit confusing for me. I think if it were very large numbers, like the nation of India, then it might have an affect on the men who are attacking. I don’t know how well this will work today because much of the wars are fought from a distance instead of face to face. The back ground he has did have a large appearance of Christianity. The religion behind his goals and inspirations was very edifying. I don’t think his vision of nonviolence will ever be achieved. That would require too many changes in ideas and would require a major personal change for the better.

The reading on genealogy of morals was overwhelming. It was hard to keep track of what the author was talking about. It is too overwhelming to accomplish reading and having an understanding of this BOOK in a one week period. It was interesting though to see how it all was just a play on words and by whom they were being developed by.