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It is contended here that Gandhi’s wisdom is everlasting, augmenting and refining human cognition and extending to all things sentient in nature, such that scholars like Michael Nagler are advocating establishing harmony in its context. We begin with issues ranging from considering ourselves wise in comparison to other living beings to the consequences of intelligent but not wise humanoids around us, and, how Gandhi’s wisdom as an anchor offers ease in adjustments to the changing noosphere. Gandhi’s wisdom of nonviolence spread and tested in three continents offers ecological validity, and, with inputs from related sciences supplements our quest for the conceptualization of wisdom. For authentic wisdom, Gandhi stands as a prime example and from whom, as Erikson argued, psychology could benefit and find its roots.
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Kool, V.K., Agrawal, R. (2022). Gandhi’s Wisdom in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond. In: Kool, V.K., Agrawal, R. (eds) Gandhi’s Wisdom. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87491-9_16
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