Mahatma Gandhi
is an inspiration and role model to many people in the world. I never knew
exactly what he did or what his thoughts were, but after reading this amazing
speech, I can consider myself one of his followers.
It took me a
long time to find fallacies in Gandhi’s speech. So I decided to look in other
people’s blogs to help me out. I managed to find a few.
Almost at the
end of the speech, Gandhi posits: “Hence I gather that God is life, truth,
light. He is love. He is the supreme Good. But He is no God who merely
satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. God to be God must rule the heart and
transform it. He must express himself in every smallest act of His votary. This
can only be done through a definite realization, more real than the five senses
can ever produce.”
In this quote I was able to identify some
fallacies including misinterpreting the evidence. He starts the paragraph by
telling us God is practically the essence of life, convincing the audience of
it. But ending the paragraph, he tells us all the bad things that don’t make a
God, which are hard to fulfill, making us confused.
I
was also able to identify in this quote the fallacy of ignorance. He doesn’t give
us an example of a God, therefore, not convincing us that it exists.
Wow it took me
some time to identify only two fallacies in a quote. I know there are much more
than two but I wasn’t able to explain them.