Joan V. Bondurant (1988).  Conquest of Violence:  The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (new revised edition).  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.

THE READING ASSIGNMENT

Chs. I, II, III, V, VI

ORIENTING NOTES WHILE YOU DO THE READING

Das Ziel nich zeige, zeige auch den Weg
Denn so verwachsen ist hienieden Weg und Ziel,
Dass eines sich stets ändert mit dem andern,
Und andrer Weg auch andres Ziel erzeugt.

[Point not the goal until you plot the course
For means and ends are tangled so,
That different means quite different aims enforce.
Conceive the means as ends in embryo.]

The above English passage is taken from the author's preface in the book's first (1957) edition, p.xiii.  (It is a rough translation of a passage from a play by Ferdinand Lassalle's Franz von Sickingen.)  It expresses well Gandhi's concern with means and not ends.

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FURTHER NOTES [May not be available until after class discussion of the material.]