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Highest Good-Free
dom
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
that all actions and changes are co-ordinated according to a plan made to co-operate in such a way as to realise a purpose or an
chis
end. If it is the case, it must be that the
end is something good and the subordinate ends must be such as to lead towards the
realisation of the Highest ( अपवर्ग, निःश्रेयस, मोक्ष or
Merit and all this involves such questions as, What is
Demerit.
good, virtue or merit (g) and What is Bad, vice or demerit ( 1 ), and finally, How a man should regulate his life and thought i. e. What would constitute Right Conduct ( सम्यक चारित्र) for the realisation of the Highest Good or Freedom?
Having perceived, however, that a thing
Predicates
mined.
how deter- acts in a certain way upon other things, we integrate the idea of the thing by acts of judgments and thenceforth we think of them as attributes 'inherent in the thing; but in order to express this fact we put them into conception of the thing by an act of judgment and we call them Categories, Predicates or Predicaments by pre-eminence.
Now the thing or the subject, which the predicates are ascribed to, is styled
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Good or Freedom निर्वाण ). But
