________________
Hegel.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM unified knowledge". "Philosophy" according to a third, "is the science of the Absolute," in the sense that it takes the world of Nature not as a product of chance but of a Single Infinite Power whose activity consists in the working out of a plan or purpose in the course of which It evolves this world out of Itself. Thus has philosophy been variously defined by different thinkers of different ages and climes.
The Jains, however, teach that philoPhilosophy as defined sophy consists in the voluntary and consistent by the Ji
striving, intellectual and moral, manifest in the removal of impediments on the way to Right Vision (FRIHETA) into the metaphysics of things and thoughts leading to Right Knowledge (HRH gia) of the world as a whole, and of our own function and placeRight Conduct (Hrah Tifta) therein with the express object of realizing finally the free and beatific state of our being—the ultimate end and purpose of all life and activity.
Taking philosophy, then, as an attempt Its Method to attain to a free and beatific state of
being by the virtue of Right Conduct(apia arfta) proceeding from Right Know
nas.
of enquiry.
