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  1. Which is the Greek classic that Gandhi translated into Gujarati?
    1. Plato’sRepublic
    2. Dialogues of Plato
    3. Aristotle’s Politics
    4. Aristotle’s Nicomachian Ethics
    5. None of these
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.



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