{"id":275419,"date":"2024-10-21T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=275419"},"modified":"2024-09-30T04:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T03:02:53","slug":"gandhis-quote-on-western-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/gandhis-quote-on-western-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi\u2019s Quote on Western Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/09\/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture\" >Someone asked Mahatma Gandhi<\/a> what he thought of western civilization, and he famously replied:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think it would be a very good idea.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like many of the best stories, alas, this one is probably apocryphal; but also, like many of the best stories, it has survived because it has the flavor of truth. But my own response would have been very different:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think you should give up the very idea of western civilization.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ditto! [TMS Editor]<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, is a British-born, Ghanaian-American philosopher and cultural theorist. He is author of the award-winning<\/em> In My Father\u2019s House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Food-for-thought-logo3-e1591513161993.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-151695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Food-for-thought-logo3-e1591513161993.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it would be a very good idea.\u201d Like many of the best stories, alas, this one is probably apocryphal; but also, like many of the best stories, it has survived because it has the flavor of truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1104,433,1012,524,91,112,2255,70,1594,481,2145],"class_list":["post-275419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-arms-trade","tag-europe","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-gandhi","tag-nato","tag-pentagon","tag-quotes","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-warfare","tag-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275422,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275419\/revisions\/275422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}