Mahatma Gandhi · Politics

Means and Ends: The Tree and Its Seed

Against the whole tradition that the end justifies the means, Gandhi insisted that the means <em>are</em> the end in the making - that you cannot reach a pure goal by impure roads, because the means is the seed and the end is the tree it grows into.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Gandhi’s claim that &lsquo;the means are the end in the making.&rsquo; Explain in your own words why he thought a good goal reached by bad methods becomes a bad goal.

Leads to The Bhagavad Gita.

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