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Which is the Greek classic that Gandhi translated into Gujarati?
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- Plato’sRepublic
- Dialogues of Plato
- Aristotle’s Politics
- Aristotle’s Nicomachian Ethics
- None of these
- Plato’sRepublic
Correct Option: E
Gandhi’s ethical thinking was heavily influenced by a handful of books, which he repeatedly meditated upon. They included especially Plato’s Apology, (which he translated into his native Gujarati); William Salter’s Ethical Religion (1889); Henry David Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1847); Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893); and John Ruskin’s Unto this Last (1862), which he also translated into Gujarati . Ruskin inspired his decision to live an austere life on a commune, at first on the Phoenix Farm in Natal and then on the Tolstoy Farm just outside Johannesburg, South Africa.