Lots of Fallacies There Ghandi

In the speech given by Ghandi  at Kingsley Hall in London, he talks about God and how He is perceived. I read and listened to the speech. By doing this I was able to appreciate how what he was saying was to cause and impact on the British. Tying it back to what we have been learning in class, there are some fallacies in the speech that are not easily spotted. Before I begin analyzing the fallacies, I just want to throw out there, I liked the speech and am in no way attempting to butcher it.

In the first paragraph, Ghandi uses a hasty generalization. He presents all this information about how the existence of God can be reasoned to a limited extent. When he says that last sentence he is drawing conclusions out of scanty data or evidence which is actually more his ideas turned into evidence. This is clear in the art sentence when he closes that idea generalizing the idea. It is also important to point out that in the first paragraph it becomes clear what Ghandi will be discussing since he introduces the topic clearly. This could show the straw man fallacy since he chooses to get his point across by tackling a topic that is easier for him to talk about.

The second paragraph discusses the village of Mysore and how the population didn't know who their ruler was. By giving this specific example Ghandi shows the use of straw man once again to tackle the argument in territory that is known to him.  The Chantelier fallacy is present in the third paragraph when he talks about the research and how he interpreted it. This doesn't necessarily mean it leads to this specific conclusion and how he could also be using the fallacy of misinterpreting the evidence. It is mostly his ideas and making his ideas sound like the right conclusion.

The final paragraph has a lot of tautology since the premise of what God should be is repeated constantly. For example when Ghandi says: "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." He is mostly just repeating the same idea in different ways. That God is this and does that. Also in this last paragraph, there is use of the fallacy of antecedent since he says situations will be a certain way continuously because they have always been that way.