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FOREWORD
PREFACE
CHAPTER
I THE LOGICAL BACKGROUND OF JAINA PHILOSOPHY
CONTENTS
Prof. S. N. Dasgupta
Sources of knowledge (1-2); Functions of experience and reflection (3); Origin and status of the Laws of Thought and their reorientation from the Jaina standpoint (4-19); Difference of philosophers and their progress towards consummation of absolute unanimity stressed (20-21); Original contributions of Jaina Philosophy (21-22).
II NON-ABSOLUTISM
An absolute real can neither be a cause nor an effect (23-27); The Jaina solves the difficulty by means of anekānta (27-29); Things cannot be held to be existent in an absolute sense; four kinds of non-existence; position of the Vedantist elucidated (29-35); The Jaina position of nonabsolutism (35-37); Sankhya theory of causation and its criticism by the Jaina (37); The problem of the eternal existence of word of the Mimämsist and its solution from the Jaina standpoint (38); The formidable array of arguments of the Cārvāka materialist who denies the reality of non-existence on entirely different grounds (38-43); The Jaina reply (43-46); The problem of post-nonexistence (46-48).
III NUMERICAL DIFFERENCE AND ABSOLUTE NON-EXISTENCE
Meaning of numerical difference and absolute non-existence; The results of their denial; The Vedantist and the Buddhist positions (49-51);
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