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SCIENCE AND JAINA VIEW OF VALUES
We are living in an age of science. The scientific progress has affected practically all walks of life. The methodology of science has revolutionized our approach to the empirical world. Natural and social sciences along with psychological studies have added new dimensions to understanding of nature and man. The tangles of nature and the depths of human personality are getting unraveled with the passage of time. The techniques developed by applied sciences are amazingly changing the face of the world. The sources of communication, the means of transportation, the researches in the medical and agricultural science, the use of the electrical and mechanical appliances and so on have, no doubt, enriched our living facilities. Thus the natural and human sciences have influenced mankind in their own ways.
There is no denying the fact that science and human life are intertwined. Men all over the world are enjoying the gifts of science. But however important the achievements of science may be, man does not seem to be peaceful. Human relationship is disturbed. Destructive tendencies in man are prominent. Individual dissensions and political strifes are becoming common. Political boundaries have divided mankind into antagonistic groups. Man's love of power is abnormally increasing. Destructive weapons are piling up. The atmosphere rampant at the national and the international level has endangered the life of man.
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