Hemchand gossai biography of mahatma
Hemchand gossai biography of mahatma
"The Virtue of Interrupted Lives" by Hemchand Gossai!
The Virtue of Interrupted Lives
Publication Date
11-6-2010
Keywords
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, CLASS, Great Minds Lecture Series, Interrupted lives, Jeremiah, Jesus, Socrates, Thoreau, Henry David, Mandela, Nelson, Havel, Vaclav, Gandhi, Mahatma, Parks, Rosa, Day, Dorothy, King, Martin Luther Jr., Wiesel, Elie
Abstract
In this lecture Dr.
Gossai hopes to inspire the audience to explore ways of having their lives when interrupted either by design or by circumstances, move in a direction that is just and virtuous. He will look to those who have gone before us, individuals whose lives were interrupted, often tragically, painfully and who chose to live their lives out in hope and justice, peace and civic virtue for others: From Jeremiah to Jesus; Socrates to Thoreau; Dietrich to Bonhoeffer to Nelson Mandela; Vaclav Havel to Mahatma Gandhi; Rosa Parks to Dorothy Day; Martin Luther King, Jr.
to Elie Wiesel. What does it mean to have our lives be interrupted? H