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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. subjective, instinctive, pre-conscious type an
exclusive love, and is such a feeling that the The point of individuaiton idea of the two objects that can be concieved
as giving equally possible satisfaction of this feeling is an absurd idea. At this moment he consciously individuates the toy and this is so because he loves the toy with an exclusive love that permits no other. With such exclusive interests, one learns to love one's home, books, children etc. Hereby one becomes conscious of a thing not as an object that represents a class, for exclusive interest does not permit it, but views it as a single member of a single class. This is the point where he individuates it.
Thus we see ethical love, or organising interest is precisely that sort of interest that cannot serve two masters. It first individuates the master and then others in relation to it, that come in the way of means to it. It is this individuating interest in living one kind of life for one purpose in view that a man becomes a moral individual, selfsame personality and not a totality of passing states as the Sensationist School or the Buddhists hold.
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